Somaliland.

Manawatu Herald, 4 December 1902, Page 2

Somaliland.

The Mullah returned the British stores captured from Colonel Swayne during the recent fight, accompanied with a message of defiance. The Somali levies are insubordinate. They are being rigorously punished. Many stimulate sickness in order to 'secure hospital comforts and camel transportation to the coast.

Colonel Cobbe, on the 12th insi, will make Balman Wells, forty miles beyond Bohotloh. The stores which had been captured from the British and were returned by the Mullah were unfit for use.

Mr Bennet Burleigh, correspondent of the - “ Daily Telegraph,” cables from Berbera that the Mullah Was formerly an interpreter on a British warship. In recent letters lie offered to make peace if Britain would acknowledge his independence and grant him a seaport eastward of the port of Berbera. The “ Morning Post’s ’’ Aden correspondent states that the rains are ceasing. All advance into Somaliland will be impossible until August. The British posts meanwhile are being sttengthened.

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