ITALIAN SOMALILAND.
(Received To-day, at 5.25 a.m.)
Massowaii, Last Night
.Tho Somali Mullah looted six thousand jflptols and mxny shoep from the Italian Mijertain*, with who n the Mullah was for some time fighting. He also looted in the vicinity of Obbia. An Italian warship will make a demonstration.
[SomalilanJ comprises the Eastern horn or promontory of Africa. The bulk of it is under the protection of Italy, though there is an English protectorate on tho coast of the Gulf of Aden, and France has a footing at Obok. The area of Italian Somaliland is one hundred thousand square miles, and the population is something under half a million. It is divided into three parts for administration purposes-- viz., the Beradir Coast Colon}', the Sultanate of Obbia, and the Sultanate of the Mijertain, the capital of which is Bundar Alula. I
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8277, 19 October 1905, Page 5
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