SOMALILAND.
TROUBLESOME DERVISHES
RAIDS AND OTHER OUTRAGES
(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received March 16th, 10.40 p.m.) ADEN, March 16. Fifty Dervish horsemen fired a volley into a native bazaar at Berbera, wounding several natives. Police pursued them for ten miles without result. The Dervishes, on the police withdrawing, fired into a smallpox hospital and ignited several villages, besides besides killing and wounding five friendly natives. I A severe raid is reported twenty miles to the eastward of Berbera. Berbera is the chief town of British Somalilond, and is on thcJ coast. The fighting last year took place about a hundred miles inland. Tho policy of the J_rili_.ii Government is to hold a strip of the coast.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14918, 17 March 1914, Page 7
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