SOMALILAND.
DERVISHES ON WAR PATH. POLICE FORCE IN PERIL. Press Association—By Tel.—Copyright. LONDON, August 12. ' It is cJrfieially announced v that more j than 1000 Dervishes between Berbera (British Somali landl and Odivciu, on Saturday attacked 150 camel-constabu-s' lary who were despatched to suppress j intertribal looting. The constabu- "! lary's retreat being cut off the men : formed a zarcna, but tho maxim gun j j jammed. Cornfield was s i killed, and Captain G. H. Summers 3 i wa.s severely vrounded. Fifty or the 1 '• constabulary were killed and wounded. ] The Dervishes withdrew after heavy '_ • losses, when their ammunition was cxl : haustcd. A. British relief c-oiunm of -|3OO effected a junction with the con-, a j stabulary, and .tho men are preparing j to res'st further attacks. l j In the House "of Commons the Right { Hon. Lewis Harcourt, Secretary of . State for the Colonies stated that three - j'hundred troops and the gunboat Carajl ens had been sent from Aden'to Bert j hera in connection with the reported , (massacre of a British camel corps. i ' Li
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 15120, 14 August 1913, Page 8
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