Somaliland
THE MULLAH’S FRIEND
Karl Inger, of Buda-Fcsth, the Austrian officer who has been mentioned as adviser to the Mullah whom Colonel Swayne is operating against, has written a letter to the newspaper “Pester Lloyd,” signed “ Emir Soliman Ingor Abdallah.” Inger describes the Mullah as “my brave and most faithful subordinate,” and as fighting for a free and independent Somaliland. He wishes to place the Mullah under an Austro-Hungarian protectorate. * SAFETY OF COLONEL SWAYNE’S COLUMN.
News has been received that Colonel Swayne’s column has reached Bohoteleh, the British fortified post for which it made after the battle With the Mullah without further attack.
Colonel Manning, the principal officer of the Somaliland Protectorate, advises that the arrangements as to reinforcements be not cancelled, since farther developments are anticipated, The detachment of troops from Aden has landed at Berbera.
Additional African troops under the proteCteratea have been ordered to Somaliland.
An Indian native field hospital has been sent, and the Second Sikhs at Simla have been Warned to be in readiness.
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Manawatu Herald, 28 October 1902, Page 2
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169Somaliland Manawatu Herald, 28 October 1902, Page 2
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