The Archive · 1910

The French Sudan

A DESPERATE FIGHT

London vit Bombay, Dec. 8.

Telegrams from Paris state that 5,000 followers of the Sultan of Masealit in Wadai attacked a detachment of 300 of Lieut. Colonel Moll's Rifles on November 9 near Trigelo (2). After severe fighting the enemy was repulsed. The Sultan of Tadjodadin and six hundred men were killed and the Sultan of Wadoi was wounded.

Liout.-Colonel_ Moll and three other officers and forty men were killed and four officers and sixty-men were wounded.—Reuter.

The kingdom of Wadai lies to the East of Lake Tchad. Masealit is the name of district in Wadai,—Ep.

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