The Archive · 1900

The Rising in Ashanti

Ten thousand rebels attacked Kumossi Fort on the 25th of April. On the 29th of April two officers were wounded and fourteen Houssas were killed. The Lagos Constabulary ar-

THE Director of Sicawei Obseratory' reports: Wednesday, 2nd May, 10 a.m. State of the atmosphere on the Ist.—Glass falling along the whole coast of China and in Japan; barometer rising over the upper Yangtze Valley. Rainy weather at Shanghai. Very changeable winds at sen.—State on the morning of the 2nd. rived at Kumassi on the 29th of Wi shifting to N.W, and weather se April, after two days' severe fighting with 8,000 rebels and losing five offers and 159 Constabulary wound:

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