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Looks Dard For Mello

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Day
19
Month
January
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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Río Janeiro, Jan. 15.- News has been received in this city from the south of a character most encouraging to the Brazilian government and disheartening to the iusurgent admiral. It was to the effect that the long expected and much relied upon reinforcements from Santa Catharina are unlikely to give anything like prompt assistance to their fellow-ingurgents who are now in Rio Iiarbor. In tact it now looks as if the revohuionaiy leaders at Santa Catharina ?ould be unable to iend any aid to Admiral Da Gama. The serious illness of Admiral Mello on board the República has had an apparent disastrous effect upon the insurgent torces in the southern part of the republic. - In Rio Grande Do Sul the insurgents have raised the siege of Bage and have left that city in triumphant possession of the governnient ffarrison. In a number of other engagements in the south the revolutionists have suffered defeat and many of Mello's men have been wounded or killed. Unless Mello rapidly recovers from his illness and is able by his presence to reaniruate his men the outlook for the insurgents is very dark indeed. Discontent is said to prevail to a large extent in their ranks and desertions are said to be immerous. Fever is also thinning the insurgent array. Unless sometliing be quickly done Mello will lose fully oue half of "his cutire forcé in the south. It is very probable that this news will lead to a greater activity thun ever on the part of Peixoto and that a battle between his troops and the iusurgeuts squadron and forts of a decisive character will be' fought within a very short time. The inhabitants of Rio are heartily tired of the war and the epidemics now rasing here make the desire for restoration of peace all the stronger on the part of the citizens generally.

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