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Show BARBAROUS CRUELTIES. Horrlblo Story ItegH riling Manner French Officers Treated Prisoners. Paris, Sept. 3. The Matin pnblishes. details of the investigation into the conduct of Captain Voulet and Captain Chamoin, charged with barbarous cruelties to the natives in the French Soudan, which led to the sendingof an expedition under Lieutenant-Colonel Klobb after them. According to the paper the two officers offi-cers mentioned, who were in command of a column of troops, began their work of barbarity by beheading a native na-tive who declared he did not know what he was being questioned about. A lettei said Voulet captured eighty natives, of whom he killed twenty of the women and children, shot a soldier for wasting ammunition and burned a, village of 10,000 inhabitants. Chamoin, it is asserted, shot two of his men without trial for not pursuing-a pursuing-a native who had wounded a soldier. He also burned a village, and having-lost having-lost six men in an engagement rushed to a village and captured twenty of the inhabitants, of which number he killed ten, placing their heads on. pickets. It is further charged that Chamoin allowed his men to mutilate the bodies of the natives who were killed by cutting- off their hands. |