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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2, 3 September 1913, Page 5

26 TO 1500.

THE SOMALILAND FIGHT. LIEUTENANT DUNN’S STORY. [Bv Electric Telegraph—copyright] [United Press Association. (Received 8.5 a.m.) London, Sepetmber 2. Lieutenant Dunn, who commanded tho camel corps after Corfield’s death, gives a graphic account of the skirmish in a private letter. He says that Corlield and 112 men were fighting for five hours. It was a perfect hell on earth. Corlield was killed, and Summers wounded soon after tho commencement. The Maxim gun was disabled after half an hour. Then about thirty Somalis deserted at the end. Fortysix camels were shot, thirty-two men killed, and 22 wounded. Twenty-six fighting men were left facing 15(J(J Dervishes, and were only saved because their ammunition gave out. If tho Dervishes had brought up spearmen they must have rushed tho zareba. Usually the began filing at 200 yards distance and charged right up to the zareba.

It is estimated that least 200 were killed ajul some wounded. Summers was very plucky. He would not give way though wounded thrice, in the left arm and in both legs:. During a lull in the proceedings lie cried: “Well, this will go down in history as ‘Dunn’s last stand,’ ” hut lie proved a bad prophet.