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GRAPMIC NARRATIVE OF SIEGE AND RE- LIEF KUMASSI—GOV. HODG- SON’S MIRACULOUS ESCAPE FROM THE TOWN,

OF

The writer of the following cable- gram, which is the first full story of the actual siege of Kumassi, is an Im- perial officer who accompanied the re- inforcements of Lagos Constabulary which fought its way into Kumassi on the evening of April 29. Kumassi was closely invested from April 20 until June 23, when Sir Fred- erick Hodgson, with most of the troops, made a miraculous escape to the coast. The relieving column did not reach Kumassi until July rs. Cape Coast Castle, July 22.-—On April 18 the Hausa Constabulary from Lagios landed here under orders for 250 men to proceed at once and _ with all despatch to Kumassi, where Sir Frederick Hodgson, Governor of the Gold Coast, then was. No information had been received frem the Governor for some days. All the troops he had with him in Kumas. si were the garrison of 120 men and tSo men who arrived under Captain Middlemisst just before the rising took place. Preparations were hurried on. The Hausas from Lagos made a_ night march following the day of their ar- rival here. Owing to an_ insufficient number ef carriers many stores had to be left behind. The first night the column halted at Akroful, and the next day was spent in subsidizing car- riers. A short march was made, and in the evening the celumn reached Dunkwa. Prashu was reached on the 23rd. Here we waited for the stores which had been left behind. As they newer came we pushed on, and on the 26th reached Monse hill. The natives were apparantly friendly so far. On the 27th two deserted villages were passed be- yond Esumeja, where we found some wounded traders.

AN ATTACK IN FRONT. Atone o'clock on that day the troops were attacked by Ashantis in front. The engagement lasted nearly anhour. There were no stockades. Here Mr. Cochrane was wounded in the sheulder while trying to mend the Maxim. Most of our casualties were caused by Ashantis who fired from trees up which they had climbed. The forest was so dense that we could not see two yards ahead of us. As twenty-five of our men had been wounded, it was decided to remain in Essiagu that might, only seven miles from Kumassi. We were left unmol+- ested. It was impossible to estimate the losses of the Ashantis, owing te the dense jungle. Onthe 2oth we left Essiagu, after burning it down, and proceeded 04, expecting every moment to be attacked. . The march was a slow one, owing to the seven-pounder having to be dragged by hand. At noon we were heavily attacked beth front and rear, and on the flanks. The enemy were driven offin the rear after one and a half hour’s _fight- ing, but the position in front was very strong, owing to a steckade. Both the 4.50 Maxims jammed, and ammu- nition fer the 7-pounder ran short. After several inefiectual attacks o2 the stockade, the position was turned ai 5 p.m. The Ashantis had all the while been firing incessantly, Captain Aplin was wounded sligntly, M~. Read was wounded severely,having a broken arin and three wounds from slugs. Mr. Ralph was wounded in the neck from slugs. The Ashantis were cleared out of the stockades at5 p.m. We pro- ceeded to Kumassi, which was only two miles further on, where we learnt that a heavy engagement had also taken place, but that the rebels were beaten off. “A savage Host of 20,- 000”

A SAVAGE HOST OF 20,000,

In the second attack on Kummassi the Ashantis were estimated to number 20,000. All the Eurcpeans were now in the fort, and+ crowds of women, traders and refugees were living in shelters around it.

On the zoth the cantonments were

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around the prison, numbering 130, killed the day before,

ever, had been carried away. On May 2 Captain Armiteg> with na- tive levies attacked the stockade by the Wesleyan mission. He was unable to take it, but inflicted heavy loss on the enemy, we having marcy wounded. The Ashantis subsequently evacuated the stockade, but on May 4 they re- turned and burned the mission On April 25, when the Ashantis had driven in our garrison from the canton- ments they made manholes running through the walls facing the fort, which they loopholed, and from this vantage fired sately onus. The walls were thick and quite impenetrable. Kumassi was invested from April 30. The Ashantis used to spend half the night in murmuring and shcting; theh did this especially on the night when Capt. Middlemist died, a fact which was made known to them by spies,

VAIN ATTEMPT TO BRING FOOD.

On May ro an unsuc. @3sful attempt was made to bring in food, there being none practically in Kumassi, one sheep being killed every third day and di- vided among the Kuropeans. On May 14 palavering took place with the rebels in order to see what terms could be made. Negotiations were broken off owing to the arrival of Major Mor- ris from the northern territories with 250 nen. He had had four days’ fighting, but while negotiations were proceeding he was not attached. Car- riers going outside Kumassi on for- aging expeditions were continually killed or wounded.

On May 21, aftera bombardment by the 7-pounder, a sortie was made for the garrison on the Kroboroad, and also on the Accra road. Neither was successfnl. As our ammunition was running short it had to be nursed. Mr. Leggett was severely wounded in the arm and eight men wounded.

On May 23 rations were reduced; the Europeans were cut down to two biscuits anda pound of meat, and others to one and a half biscuits and a quarter of a pound of meat. The carrier, grubbed up small roots and picked leaves until the trees became quite bare. On May 24 Mr. Cochrane and Mr. Ralph went out betore day- break with about 100 men in order to try and bring in food, or to find the camp of the relieving column. Not finding it they returned.

The Queen’s birth-day parade was attended by 300 men, the rest could not be spared from the trenches. On the 25th{Mr. Cochrane and Mr. Ralph, with 140 men, were sent out scouting. A stockade was discovered and taken. . Mr. Ralph was severely wounded in: the arm and ten men wounded. On

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re occupied, and themenin the fort the 27th Capt.

also occupied. The dead Ashantis,

were burried; most of the corpses, how_

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THE LAST COW.

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Armitage went with trenches natives towards the Mampon stockad The stockade was and crawled up unobserved, folluwed

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On May 29 Capt. Marshall, with 220

; men, attacked Mtidu, where he found the enemy too strong. Poor Ma gall was shot through the heart. The rains were getting heavy. The Ashantis continued to keep up their nightly concerts,

Mr. Berthon was now busily engag- ed in making bombs to throw into the anti camps. The first was thrown ga June 5, and another was thrown on June @. This was reported to have landed inthe middle of the chiefs when palavering as to what force should be sent against Bekwar. On June 11 a reconnaissance was made in force dewn on the Cane rvad to deter- mine the position of the steckade. It was found nearly a_ mile trom Assafu, facing sout towards. Prahsu Among carriers and civilians the death rate was twenty a day, On June 16a rocket was sent up and a star shell, The lat- ter was affected by the climate and showed no light. We could not hold out much longer. On June 18 more signals were made; six common shells being fired at five minutes minutes in- terval. Preparations were now being made tor death or freedom. lhe dayon which we were to start was kepta secret, only the Governor and Major Morris knowing. Carriers were rationed. The death rate now increased to forty a day, men dying when receiving rations. The trenches were used as graves. Inthe fort were Sir Francis and Lady Hodg- son, Major Morris, Captain Armitage, missionaries and others from the vil- lages outside, the Europeans occupy- ing the Europeans quarter. On June 23 we made our first start on the way down to the coast.

The escape was a miraculous one,

We were assisted by Yaw Amia, the

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A CONVICT ON YELLOW LIT. ERATURE.

The Star of Hope is a_bi-weekiy newspaper, edited and published by the convicts in Sing Sing prison, New York. Its contributors reside in other prisons of the State. Some of these contributors write articles well worth pondering. Number 24,107, of Auburn prison, has an article in the June number on ‘The Analysis of Crime.” ‘mong the causes of crime he places “t:.2 iafluence of criminal information tha is disseminated by the press. A ma” ecomes a criminal in mind and hear’. *hrough the process of the, perhe¥s unconscious, absorption of criminai ideas and methods, depicted in the glaring detailed descriptions of crime which fill the columns of nearly every newspaper in the land.”

Then in this hour of temptation, “the seeds of criminal information,

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PROPERTY IN GHERLOT ETOP .. FOR SALE.

The subeacriber offers by private asie ‘he proporty ono the eart side of Camber- Jand Street, in Corarlotterown, forme:ly owned by the late James Dowling, baviog a front of forty feet on the said = reet and extending back 84feet. This is a nice lot well situated ond very desirable.

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‘This description, says Number 24,- 107, “will apply to fully one-half the population of every prison, and em- braces first, second aad third offence men equally. Those to whom the for- going is applicable should be classed as involuntary criminals, because they are originally transformed from honest cit- zens into criminals by means of the undue and unproper influence exeried upon their minds by those who traffic in yellow literature.”

This Ecclesiastes of the Cell preaches a mcst valuable lesson to careless pirents who permit those under their charge to feed their minds on the ye’ low literature that is sent out from the press by the ton. There is more sound sense in what he Says than in all the theorizings and philosophizings of Nordau, Lombroso and other so-called scientific criminalogists—New York

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