SOMALI WARFARE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 739, 11 February 1910, Page 5

SOMALI WARFARE.

THE RENEWED -ACTIVITY OF. >THE :;.;A;::'"'--v v :vVvi I .MD;^H. i -..; 7 ;V':Ci ; ! :^',y/; KILLING BRITISH RESIDENTS iND ■;.-y' /'//./ By Teleßraph-ProBS Associa'tlon-GoDyriKht ;"-" ."'.-,■:.•. '. "London, February 9."- ... The .Caloiitta ■correspondent.; of :.-'"The Times'/...reports, that a' disquieting/ impression exists ',that/; the' /.hasty/ withdrawal. of'..the?a'dv'anced .-posts; in ".Somali-'' land .will" be. disastrous', to ; the.-;friendly tribes, who/relied upon.'British protection* and that'.they; are;now' suflering-from the :Mullah's reprisals.'//. 1 ././'://: ".">'"'' ;/•:'■ i'- : -'-'- : ..-":'.(■/'-' ■'.' ■''.■''J-' ■*'-:., .'/'/r:/Later..'. '.''/■;'■• ', The;Sqmali Mullah has i pillaged many towns; arid killed, p.-- numl)er.;/bf. British residents. .' ■'; /.; :"■-/■'.; .-:'; -//if"';-'/:'v'. ■".■ ; /- '/ ] ,' A thousand camels have.' been -looted W they Mullah;; /-' '-y, //./df .';/.:.' y^;//';;/

•■"•' :■:> career of the|muliah.! l ■■■•;

The Mullah out up 1 ; a convoy in Ootoben'.last, .bu&jJaHT the whole, iwas" not' uh-. usually: 1909. At the.beginning of. that year; -in-■February,-it !was cabled that ""owing, to.: one. "of'i the .tribes' imploring the oruiser 'Philomel's protection; the\cruiscr shelled .and:.'- dispersed the Soihaliland; Mullah's followers, and thereby: dispelled ■<&■ growing belief■• that .Great Britain .'did -not: intend to:'protect the friendly natives," / . -', '.;,:'.'' • In "Aiigust.: : 1899, ithe VMullah, raided British territory,, proclaimed himself the Mahdi, and .occupied. Buraoi y.He was de• feated near ■Berbera,'' but continued his hostile operations tilla', jointßritish and Abyssinian expedition' was organised in 1901;. v Abyssinia'-had, attempted the "task by herself,- \in 1900, ; but -without result. The'joint expedition succeeded in break-' ing' thevMullah's power'.for the' time::beings but the leader, himself .evaded capture. '.- '•■';': •■": ''•*'!.;^.;,-:.:^.'. : '. : .i-'!,; , ! : .-;'...'.'.'...•'•, Thel operations' lasted' over' a year,, and towards the end .pf : 1902, after. a l 'severo defeat-had .been suffered-by the. British' force vat '.Erego, .on October. 6, •-:. owing -to the,cowardice of the native levies, a fresh expedition 'was decided upon,'' with- the co-operation'of Italy. 1 During .the: whole of 1903 the fighting lasted, with occasional success for the Somalia, ■ though they were routed twice by the Abyssininns—once by their own countrymen,' and several .times by the British) .under Brigadier-General .Manning,; and- the 'Italians.' -Major-Gene? ral .Eggerton:, was.: appointed■: \ to .the supreme command in : June,. 1903..:, '.'•'. ■ ■Jn'January, 1901,',' the Mullah .was de- ; feated,' with, severe .loss, at Jiaballi,. his followers' : were: dispersed,. and' he; himself fled. In June, the expeditionary forco' was;-withdrawn,' and Colonel (local Briga- : dier-Geheral).Swayne assumed full civil and military over: the -protectorate. '■>'•The cost of the expedition to the end of the financial year 19034 was stated to be .£1,800,000. In December;. 1904, the: Mullah was assigned a settled sphere, in return for. which - concession, he; agreed, to; keep: the peaoel . .For: nearly three' years' He., remained.. comparatively., quiet.