Somaliland.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12288, 22 June 1903, Page 5

Somaliland.

.POSITION OF;. BRITISH SARRISOi^S : ' TOO WEAK TO TAKE THE OF- . FENSIVE. : : RETURN OF THE BOERS*. United OPress • Association.— By Electric. Telegraph. — Copyright. London, June '20. ; No t news .-has. been received from General" Maniung since June 13th, .but de.serfers declare that. 110 /attack has. iDcVh* made. . ' ■ » , It ',ls reported, that the Mullah is (50 miles" east." north-east of Damot. A recohaissancd .shows that live Btook 'passed on" the D,aniot 37 miles • from." Bohotle, the bulk being under cover of the Mounted Infantry, "the remainder being within supporting distance which a battalion of infantry could use if fully employed. The Daily Telegraph correspondent at Bohotle wived on June 15th that the garrison was too weak to pursu6 the Mullah, and that reinforcements werq urgently needed. ,■ Sick men were accumulating. ' Most of the Dolohanta tribesmen in the Somali Mounted t force have joined the MullaHl.; .V. M• ' .'; ' A runner from Major Hoskyns reported on the 13th that Damot was safe. . , It is believed that two British officers who were wounded in the light at Gumburru, wth a third, probably a Boer,- are" prisoners In the/ Mullah'scamp.- ■'' . ■ - ' '0' -• ' ' '' ' The Boer* 'contingent which participated in' the; Somali 'campaign, has ■sailed on. its- return'" home. • > '. •„ * isEWS ABOUT < -MA&N^NG . RECEIPT OF" HiS DESPATCHES. • -.Beceiveirl Juna 20, 9.13 a.m. ■ r '/-•,', Lpndon',\ June 21. ;,, Colonej Cobbe, and ' General Manning are due at Damot on June 21st. General Manning's despatches' up to 15th have arrived at Bohotle where a flying' column is held in, readiness if reconnaissances indicate that effective co-operation : with General "Manning' is ,. possible. ' " ' The Mullah was reported -to- be at Lasuban three miles r west- of Damot. It was also reported that a^party of rriQemen on allow - hill to the south and a thousand horsemen were "watch- ; ing General Manning. ■ Damot >vas f^afe pp. June 16th. It ie officially^, stated ,' that up *to Jime, 11th 36. pf General Manning's.of"ficers and 1937 lof his.mqn;, bad reached Bbhotle. w ' J " - - >w ,