The Archive · 1900

The Rising in Ashanti

A dispatch from Colonel J. Will-cocks, C.M.G., DS.0., at Fumsu, dated the 8rd inst. says that runners rert that the Governor of the Gold ast had left Kumassi and arrived at Ekwanta, twenty miles southwest, going to Cape Coast. Many were killed in breaking out Kumassi. The Governor left a detachment to garrison Kumassi. Reuter's correspondent at Fumsu says that the relief force will shortly be concentrated, and it is expected that Kumassi will be relieved in ten lays.

London, 6th July.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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