Show WAR IN CENTRAL AFRICA FIVE BATTLES FOUGHT WITH ARAB ARA ljra RS the war against the arab slave stealers steamers ste alers IQ in central africa has actually begun within wallin the past eight months five hard bard battles have been fought fou lit along the northwest coast of likkel laken assa at last accounts twenty 81 six white renwith men with several hundred native allies were in their camp st at karonas Ka expecting as soon as possible to take the field agate agail with the hope of driving the arabs out of the country living in wretched little huts around the camp were lour four thousand wa va refugees 19 who bo had been driven from their villages bythe by the ruthless invaders the arabs have announced their purpose of driving the bite race from the lake The themia miar fonaries on aries who have statton s here a and there on loth both sides of the great aag lake and the agents of the african lakes country are determined that if possible they will save this populous region from tilie the desolation and misery the arabs are spreading wherever they go they have not invited wai but they are the first comers in this region and they say the arabs must not pursue their murderous work among the where white enterprises have for twelve years been developing thus tar far the whites have only held their own the arabs occupy four bulletproof bullet proof stockades and alt although ough since their aacken attack on karop th ave acted tor foi the most part n defensive the whites have not been fie en able to drive tham them f from rem their positions no the dative allies have not acted well 1 under the heavy fire which the arabs from be nd their defenses two I white 1 e men have been killed both the loir brothers bro theys whose activity keti vity n this thie new field of commerce has made them well known have bave been wounded and several natives have been killed and nearly a hundred bundred disabled during the assault upon the arab village although the arabs fight behind mud walls three feet thick the whites on two odea occasions have seemed on the point of capturing the hostile ostile cam camps gs but the unsteadiness pen of oame tte native a ve allies at the critical moment oth both times prevented a complete victory about july 1st ast the whites decided that the enemy was so ao stion strongly gly en trenched thai with the means at hand they could not possibly drive him out our latest news is that they had bad sent a messenger to the coast boast and telegraphed both to england and natal for two cannon and fresh stores of ammi all the in the country are united in the deter determination bation to get a bis big benl enl gun un or oi two and IR fight to the bitter end knowing well that unless they win they must abandon the nyasha region and its tribes as a fresh sacrifice to the barbarity of the in |