BRAVO BLUEJACKETS!
♦ CLEVKK CAPTURE OFF SOMALI COAST. Uiectrio Tulcgra h Copyright. UniieJ Press Association. (Received, January 22, 9.2 a.m.) U-Xi-OX, Jan. 21. A patrol dhow in eliiirgo of Lieutenant Beva-n, manned by six i;lut'jaek«t.H, and with a threi'pounikr, made a valuable captiut: off the Somali coast. Those- on bfxird feigned distress and sent a Somali native to the masthead to signal. They lured a.n Arab diiow within rang.:, and a thrilling fight ensued. Inu dhow was captured and found to be in possession of French papers from Jibuti], also having eighty French rilles, ten thousand rounds of ammunition, seven thousand revolvers and cartridges, intended to be- sent to the Mullah by a circuitous route. These were confiscated, and the dhow sunk.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9646, 22 January 1903, Page 2
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