BIG ODDS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 84, 13 August 1913, Page 5

BIG ODDS.

TROUBLE IN SCMALILAND. CAMEL CORPS IN DIFFICULTIES [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] Aden, August 12. Three hundred troops have been sent to Berbera, owing to a report that a camel corps has been cut up in Somali land. THE FIGHTING DERVISHES. BRITISHERS KILLED AND WOUNDED. (Received 9.15 a.m.) London, August 12. It is officially announced that over 1000 Dervishes between Berbera' and Odwein on Saturday attacked 150 camel constabulary who were despatched to suppress inter-tribal looting.

The constabulary's retreat was cut off and they formed a zareba, but the maxim jammed, Corfield, the commanding officer, was killed and Captain G. H. Summers was severely wounded. Fifty of the constabulary were killed and wounded. The Dervishes withdrew after heavy losses, when their ammunition was exhausted. A British relief column effected a junction with the constabulary near Buras and are preparing to resist further attacks.

RELIEF PARTY DESPATCHED. (Received 11.55 a.m.) London, August 12. Mr L. V. Harcourt (Colonial Secretary), in the Home of Commons, stated that 300 troops and the gunboat Caracas had been sent from Aden to Berbera, in connection with the reported massacre of a British camel corps.