Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1840-01-30
Correspondence Of the !Sasannaa Georgian.
FRAScE-WAR WITH ALGIERs.
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FRAScE--WAR WITH ALGIERS.
PARIS Dec. z, 1880.
France is beginning TO reap the bitter
fruits Of her lempurizms policy in Alsiers.
.AhdeI Kadrr has declared warto lie knife
in brhaltoi his holy cause. and his first
attack aud success have been marked with
the sanguinary stamp OF savage warlarc.
The report which mentioned in my last
of a Freuch regiment having been annhi-
lated hy the lrrocious Arabs is confirmed,
excepting as TO the amount. The rrgi-
meui niusl be reduced To a company of
2O0 men, who were imprudent enough to
oppose an Arabian column ofhnrsc, l5GO
siru1n, and were defeated, as might lre ex-
pecred, with the loss Of lU5, left dead on
ihe field; all escort Of 80 mcu with convoy
was attacked Ivy thousand Arabs The
li,lle band, having ranged the conway i'll a
square, wilhsioud the enemy until The arii-
val of surcor, " hich decided The contest in
their l;rvor, with lhe loss Of the conlmandan'
ulunc.
The accounts of losses sustained declare
them to have been greater than ever be-
lnre heen sustained in the Alge'iue wars.
and all within The space OF tw'' days. The
particulars ofIhe second days luss are as
follows.
4 convoy escorted hy forty MEN was
captured. and The whole were deraplaIed
except Two, who escaped 10 give an ac-
count Of The disaster. Several farms have
been u':,el, and The laborers murdered.
Twenty thousand carried ntl-four
hundred penceable colnnisls. including %
men. have heen slaughtered.
Half battalion ofFrench infantry was
completely cut in pieces.
Three tribes Of friendly Arabs massa.
cred or carried away into the desert.
All the couricrs with dispatches have
been intercepted and murdered.
Most of the guard houses at the outskirts
have been attacked, and The guard mas
sacred.
One ofthe forts being in danger of cap
iure from party of Arabs, which com.
pany of French infantry was engaged il
opposing, the artillery If The fort could ne
lnnger delay firing uponlhe mass of whom
were killed. This had the effect Of disper'
sine the Arabs, who have mural aver
sion 10 n connonalc. AL the colnnists whc
have escaped have taken refuge either IN
The camps or in Alsiers. au'l great fear:
are entertained lest the provisions shoult
nnr suffice.
Marshal Valee has applied to the gov
prnmpnt FIR III. 900 men oulv. Ii is sale
that 1910 will he sent. The 5oth an'
the :e,l light Infantry are ordered 10 embark
forthwith al TouIon, and twenty squadron
of horse are Oh their road to the coast TO
the same purpose.
The .Noniteur publishes two ordiuan
ces: one of them for the organization o
2J.0O0 more consrripts the olh"r, which
opens n credit of nineteen millions nine
hundred and eighry seven thousand fanceS
for the extraordinary expeusssspf tie wa
department during 1910. Algerics ha.
already cost five hundred millions oflrancs
and innumerable deaths among the sol
diery.
An embassy ia on the eve OF setting ou
to the Emperor of Marncco, requiring hin
10 break oil his connection with Ahdel Ia
der, and threatening him with the ven.
geance of France in case of any assistance
hping offered TO the latter, even byperml.
tiuS the passage nfarlnS and aumuniIior
through bis dnniniuns. In 1886 al the
ballln Of Tar:ra. Abdel Kader was assisted
bv 5000 Morocco troops. anil tits reported
Thai he has now obtained a similar sup
port.
Lieut.. Gen Cnhicrrs is designed for the
command of The active forces 10 be senl
against Abdel Kadrr.