BRITAIN'S LITTLE WARS.
A DISASTROUS EXPEDITION
ATTACKED BY DERVISHES.
t?>- Telesrapli.~rre*s Association.—Copyrigbt Received this day 9.15. London. Tuesday.
I( is officiallv announced that over a thousand dervishes between Berbera and Odj:cin on SsUi''<!:>y attacked ]:>o camel conr-tabulr.ry despatched to suppress inter-tribal ioolinp. The constabulary rctr-at was cut ofT and they formed a ;:;:rcbn. but; the maxim jammed. (JocTiek!. the commanding oiiicer, was killed and Captain C. H. Summers severely wounded. Fifty of the constabulary were killed and wounded. The dervishes withdrew alter heavy losses when their ammunition was o:\hnusteu. A British relFiC column e'iVect ed a junction with the constabulary rear Bur an and is preparing to resist further attack?.
Mr Hareourt. in the Ilouse oC Common? *(a'eu three iuimired troops and the as had been sent from Accn to Berbora in connection with tin- reported massacre of a British camel corps
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 593, 13 August 1913, Page 5
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142BRITAIN'S LITTLE WARS. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 593, 13 August 1913, Page 5
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