SOMALILAND.
ARRIVAL OF REINFORCEMENTS. (Received December 26, 9.4. a.m.) LONDON, December 25. Seven hundred British reinforcements from Berbora have arrived at Obbia, and will land on Saturday. Colonel Manning’s force will ultimately number two thousand fivo hundred. Tho Mullah is eighty miles distant, and is holding tho Galkaya wells. (Received December 27, 0.50 a.m.) • LONDON, December 26. Nows has boon received that the Mullah, under tho guiso of holding a palaver, attacked and beheaded fifty chiefs of the Northern Midjestani tribe. His treachery has alienated many tribes. Britain is assured of tho loyalty of tho Southern Midjestani tribesmen, who are under tho Sultan of Jusulfali.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4847, 27 December 1902, Page 5
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