Show ATTACKED BY ASHANTIS SITUATION ABOUT KUSIASSI CHANGES FOR WORSE CommanderInChief Gold Coast Colony J Col-ony Requests Reinforcements at t Once Several Engagements Had r London May GTho Colonial olllec U cgJSrC th Jowlrg cI1IvptJ1 from Frederick Mitchell odgsohr Governor and tonunanderlnChicf Ot Gold Coast Colony dated liumassl I ApJ 11 tP Yj t 3 r < t t r The Jtualloli I regret to Inform I you has changed for thc worse On April 23rd a force wa sent to clear thb rebel force to the eastward Four members of the < constabulary were 1 killed and a largo number of the rebels reb-els were killed or wounded j On April 25lh the Ashantls surrounded sur-rounded the town In great force probably prob-ably 10000 and made a determined at uvclc The JIausas were obliged to I I evnouote the cantonment and lo concentrate con-centrate around the forr Thc engagement engage-ment lasted four hours Twenty of our native allies and two Hausas were killed The present occupants of the fort number 358 including eighteen Europeans Euro-peans six of whom are missionaries It Is necessary that further reinforcements reinforce-ments be sent to the Gold Coast Sir Frederick Hodirson under dale I i of April 30th telegraphed = Yesterday Yester-day a serious attack was made dn the fort by the rebels but they were routed rout-ed on all cldcs with great loss Two members of the constabulary were killed J and ton wounded A contingent of Lagos constabulary under InspectorGeneral Alpin has arrived ar-rived after two clays severe fighting The column was attacked at Asagul which was taken with the loss of one killed J and twentythree wounded among them Aplin slightly I On the following day the contingent was attacked two miles from Kumas sio by SOOO rebels There was great I loss In taking thc stockade across the road After desperate fighting the AslantlB tied Two members of the constabulary were Jellied and thirteen wounded including Inspector Read Have bcen unable to send letters or telegrams through Under date of May 3rd Sir Frederick Hodgson wired that the rebels were massed eastward and that he had I made a demonstration the previous day with two guns Inlllctlng great loss One of the native auxiliaries was killed The Colonial office announces that In I addition to the Lagos constabulary reinforcements have been ssent to Sir Frederick Hodgson from the Sierra Leon frontier police and from the West African frontier police In Northern and Southern Nigeria |