SOMALILAND.
MASSOWAIT, Dec. 7. The Daily Tek-grapli reports that Commander Yolturus, at Bunderkassim, captured Abdullah Sheri, tine -Mullah's main stay, and will band him over to Lieutenant-General Egerton in pursuance of Abdullah's urgent request. SUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS. SURROUNDED, CAPTURED AND HANGED. Received 9, 0.37 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 8. The Mullah's patrol has occupied Mudug. Colonel Mahon Governor of Kordci'an, with Khartoum cavalry and (wo hundred infantry from El-Ob-eid and two Maxims, 'made a forced inarch of two hundred miles through the desert of Fachestowe to Togalla,, surrounded and captured Mahdi Mahomed Elamin, a Tunisian who had already gathered many followers. EiJamin was tried and hanged at El Obeid.
The success of the operations was due to| the extraordinary rapidity, as on the slower return journey three fourths of the troops were down with fever.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue XXXXV, 9 December 1903, Page 3
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133SOMALILAND. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue XXXXV, 9 December 1903, Page 3
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