ANGRY TRIBESMEN
PERIL TO FRENCH COLONY
SOMALILAND AFFAIR
LONDON, April 13. The- Paris correspondent of the "Daily Mail" states that grave fears are held for the safety of the Trench colony in Somaliland, owing to reports from Djibouti that between 7000 and j 8000 angry tribesmen are massing on the southern frontier. ; The colony is garrisoned by only fifty Camel Corps men, and the Governor, it is stated, has asked for reinforcements to be sent immediately. Military aeroplanes are hastening from Syria, and a company of Senegalese riflemen is also en route. French Somaliland has an area of 46,300 Bquare miles, find is on the cast coast of Africa, just south of the southern entrance to the Bed Sea. Its southern frontier adjoins Abyssinia.
,The International cable news .appearing In this Issue Is published by arrangement with the Australian Press Association and the "Sun,"' "Herald," Stun Office Limited,
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 94, 22 April 1933, Page 11
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148ANGRY TRIBESMEN Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 94, 22 April 1933, Page 11
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