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Show Gorillas Seize African W omen ; Troops on Trail Madrid. A Spanish military expedition expe-dition under the leadership of General Munez de Prado, tracing the frontiers of Spanish Guinea in Africa, reports that large bands of enormous gorillas are terrorizing the natives. Above the cataracts of the Benito river near Otocho, the gorillas have raided the villages and have captured native women, whom they are keeping keep-ing prisoners in the dense jungles around the town. Nightly the women's- screams are heard by the villagers, who are afraid to seek to rescue them. The general announces he is preparing pre-paring an elaborate military expedition expedi-tion lo rescue the women and to kill or to capture the gorillas who also are devastating the plantations. The Spanish government has instructed in-structed the leader to capture the gorillas gor-illas alive wherever possible for research re-search on the YoronolT gland experi- lULIliS. |