TWO OLD FRIENDS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14323, 13 October 1910, Page 2

TWO OLD FRIENDS.

MENELIK AND TILE- MULLAH. SHOW SIGNS OF LIFE. It is a pleasure to welcome back to existence two such hardy and picturesque personages as the "Emperor Menclik of Abyssinia and the Somali Mullah (says the "Daily Chronicle ") Both have been more or less official!v killed many times in recent years but now, on the same dav, news arrives concerning both. Neither is yet dead so that previous reports have* been regrettably exaggerated. It was in June of the present rear that the Mullah was last reported to Jiavo been captured and shot by fnendlies." The following Renter telegram yesterday suggests that the fnendlies" on that occasion made one or those little errors that happen in the best regulated armies appen

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