BRITISH SOMALILAND
NO PROPOSAL TO CHANGE STATUS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 27. Asked in the House of Commons if he would take the necessary steps to bring British Somaliland into the status of a, British colony and make its people British citizens in accordance with their desires, the Secretary for the Colonies, Mr W. Ormsby-Gore, replied: “The answer is in the negative. I am not aware of any widespread desire on the part of the inhabitants of British Somaliland for a change of status.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 April 1938, Page 7
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85BRITISH SOMALILAND Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 April 1938, Page 7
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