Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1893 — HOPE FOR HAGGARD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOPE FOR HAGGARD.

Fresh’Material For South African Romances. King Lebengnla ~ and Hl* Impl* Routed with Great Slaughter. A dispatch to the London Dally News, Wednesday, from Ft. Victoria, South Africa, says that the Matabeles have been routed, and that the intense anxiety which has so long existed is now relieved. All the advancing columns had a share in the skirmishing on the march, which was necessarily slow. On Friday the Matabele Imp! opened a determined attack up-

on the majority of Major Forbe’s column. The fight was vigorously sustained, but the Matabele could make no impression on the white forces who held a position in the Laagaer. The Matabele were moved down on all sides and finally were compelled to retire with heavy loss. Fresh Impis resumed the attack the next day, Maj. Forbes and the combined columns being then within a few miles of Bulu(vayo. The blacks fought with bravery, as was expected of them, but in face of the machine guns and unerring rifles of the whites they could never get within striking distance.

KING LOBENGULA.