Show ill THE WAR IN SOMA LILAND engagement in which blitsh brit sh suffer at hands of mad mullah s men A dispatch from aden arabia says brigadier general manning after an engagement with the mad mullah s forces has relieved colonel cobbe near Gumb Soma liland forty five miles westward of galade about 2 of the mullah mullahs s men were killed the british loss is not known the few details obtainable of the disaster to colonel plunkett plunketts Plunk etts s detachment april show the mullah mullahs s forces consisted of 2 2000 horsemen and 10 spearman sp earmen they surrounded col cal onel plunkett s force in the open and the somalis after a heavy rifle riffe fire charged repeatedly with their horse men and spearman sp earmen on all sides the british detachment held out until its ammunition was exhausted and then charged with the bayonet but it was ultimately overwhelmed by weight of numbers the british force fought until all of its officers and men ere killed most of the handful of men who reached the camp were wounded the somalis losses are reported to have been enormous the mullah s forces are reported to aagre gate from 3 to 4 mounted men and about 80 spearman sp earmen |