FIGHTING IN SOMALILAND.
,SERIOUS BRITISH REVERSE. NATIVE FORCE ANN 11IILATEDr A SQUARE OVERWHELMED. 210 OFFICERS AND MEN KILLED the mullah captures two MAXIM GUNS. By TVit'grapii—Press Association— Copyright. LONDON, April 2d. News inis liven received that a disaster h.-s liei'alivii tile British native force in Somaliland. Ten office:s and 2nd wen were killed. The aumiuuiiinn became exhausted. They funned a square, anil used the bayonet, inn were overwhelmed.
only d, escaping. Two Maxims were lost. FURTHER DETAILS. A BRITISH FORCE CUT OFF. CAPTAIN PLUNKETT KILLED. By Telegraph—Press Association — Copyright. Received Ihdii pan., April 21. LONDON, April 2d.
Later details show that on the morning of the 17th, believing that a small reconnoitring force, under Captain PL JO. Olivory, of the Central African Regiment, would be it difficulties, Colonel Coblie sent Captain A. W, V. Plunkett-, with Hid men of the Second Battalion of African Rides, and PS Sikhs, with two
Maxims, to extricate Captain Olivary Upon joining the latter. Captain Plunkett advanced into open country, seven miles west in Gomhnrra, where a ic-ry strong force of the Mullah s cavalry and infantry attacked at. close quarters. Captain Plunkett was amongst the killed.
Colonel Cobbe informed Wanning that he will he unable to withdraw, and \\aiming is matching to iiis relief.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 874, 25 April 1903, Page 2
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