THE SOMALILAND CAMPAIGN.
Plunkett's Last Stand
Gallant British Officers,
Atrocities by the Mullah.
A Somali Flayed Alive.
(Bcceived to-day, at 8.56 a.m.)
London, July 2,
The Daily Telegraph's Berbera correspondent states that Lieut. Stewart, the last of Colonel Plunkett's officers who was left alive, was wounded in seven places. He shot four of tbe enemy with his revolver, and a Somali then killed him. The Mullah flayed the Somali alive, being disappointed at his not capturing the officer alive.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7502, 3 July 1903, Page 3
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79THE SOMALILAND CAMPAIGN. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7502, 3 July 1903, Page 3
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