ANGRY TRIBESMEN
SOMALI LAN D TROUBLE FRENCH COLONY'S DANGER LONDON, April 12 The Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail states that grave fears are held for the safety of the French colony in Soinaliland, owing to reports IJ''' Djibouti that between 7000 and '.:000 angry tribesmen are massing on the southern frontier. The colony is garrisoned by only ou Camel Corps men, and the Governor, it is stated, has asked for reinforcements to bo sent immediately. Military aeroplanes arc hastening from Syria, and a company of Senegalese riflemen is also en route. French Soinaliland has an area of 46,300 square miles, and is on the east coast of Africa, just south of the southern entrance to the Ked pea. Its southern frontier adjoins Abyssinia.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21469, 18 April 1933, Page 9
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