THE MULLAH.
1 'BRITISH FOROE OVERWHELMED. SEVERAL OFFIOKRB KILLED. > PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. s London, April 23. ■ News has bem received th it disaster » has befallen a British n*tive force in • Somalilind. Ten officers and two hundred men ■. were killed. I Thair ammunition becama exhausted > and they formed a square and used I bayonets, but were overwhelmed, only ' 37 escaping. Two Maxims were loat. Later. > Later details show that on the morn- > ing of the 17th, believing a small recon- > noitdng force under Captain H. E, > OKvey, of the Central South African 1 Regiment, to be in difficulties, Colonel > Oobbo sent Captain A, W. Plunke", ; with 160 men of the Sicond Ba Ulion • African Riftes, and 48 Sikhs wi h two Maxims, to extricate Captain Olivey, Upon joining the latter, Captain Plunkett advanced in-'o tbe np n country seven miles west of Gumburra, where they were attacked at clo3e quarters by a very strong force of the Mullah's cavalry and it.faotry, ' Cptain Plunkett; was amoug the killed. Colonel Oobbe informed Colonel Manning ho was unable to withdraw, and Colonel Mitniug is marching to his relief. ,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 100, 25 April 1903, Page 2
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184THE MULLAH. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 100, 25 April 1903, Page 2
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