Angry Tribesmen
SOMALILAND TROUBLE
FRENCH COLONY'S DANGER
LONDON, April 12. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail states that grave fears arc held for the safety of the French colony in Somaliland, owing to reports from Djibouti that between 7000 and 8000 angry tribesmen arc massing ou the southern frontier. The colony is garrisoned by only 50 Camel Corps men, and the Governor, it is stated, has asked for reinforcements to be sent immediately.
Military aeroplanes arc hastening from Syria, and a company of Senegalese riflemen is also en. route.
French Somaliland has an area of 46,200 square miles, and is on the east coast of Africa, just south of the southern entrance to the Red Sea. Its southern frontier adjoins Abyssinia.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7135, 19 April 1933, Page 10
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