FIRED ON COMRADES
MISTAKE IN DARKNESS. EXPEDITION IN SOUDAN. Reuter’s Telegram (Received December 13, 6.6 p.m.) CAIRO, December 12. Punitive operations are going on against the Angessana tribesmen i« the Sennar district. The tribesmen recently murdered five civilians and two police, and later attacked the police headquarters at Soda hut were beaten off. It is reported that a party belonging to the punitive expedition, mistaking their comrades in the darkness for the enemy, fired, killing an officer and a private of the Arab Corps.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11393, 14 December 1922, Page 6
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84FIRED ON COMRADES New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11393, 14 December 1922, Page 6
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