ITALIAN' SOMALILAND.
7" • " HAIDERS PUNISHED. BY TELEOItArn rRESS association—copyriqht' 'V V London, March 12. , Renter reports that Suliman's' tribo in Soirifililand and somo of -the Mullah's people killed thirty of tho : Binial tribo, and stole their cattle. '. ' 1 . 'Italian trcops came up with tho raiders at Morca Gilib, killing 400 of'Suliman's'men and sixty of the Mullah's. , •^ n J anl 'a r y, two thousand Abyssinians raided the Jjugh territory, in Italian Somaliland, killing anil plundering many merchants. Somo. the Ahvssinians and somo with tho Italians. A battle was fought, with considerable losses on both sides. ; Menelik Emperor of Abyssinia; stated ' that ho .was astonished and grieved at the violation of tho status mio. at : Lugh (which tho Emperor had undertaken to maintain pending frontier delimitation .measures). Menelik laid the wliolo responsibility on rebellious Ambara chiefs, and pronnsps to recall any Abyssinians remaining at Lugh and m the flenarlir hinterland. 110 also promised to . punish the gujlty, and to indemnify the sufferers. Tho revolt in British Somaliland was led bv a person: who is known to faMe as tho "Mad Mullah,- but it is not clear whether it is ho who is operating in tho Italian sphero
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 146, 14 March 1908, Page 5
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