| Show nS CURIOUS MAI IAD IA CAMPAIGN CA Sj Corre Aden Aulen A In Arabia Aug Au 9 In her latest excursion Into huito the field fiol of ot benevolent assimilation I teems to l have found a 11 mans burden as us lien hard liento to pick UI up as a C stove the of at may mar be le maul mad madlie mat lie hue Is In not nol half halt aa ac mud mad aa as 81 the soldiers of ot this the th king who ho have been Iteen chasing hIm him or who have hae been ben chased by b him hll him since he Ito raised his hl holy hal hol banner r to say nay nothing of the worthy worth h ot or the tho British for tor rn office Colonel Colone and him Ills his predecessors tiers sors who hio thought with n a 1 handful of ot thin icil mcd Il ero cross s bucked up by b a n force of native MII Africans to reduce tho lie Mad to u it state of ot sanity vanity from rant a lint IrU Ish standpoint soon loon youth uund that they were Irire Ice combatIng 1 it whole holo holl lunatic any asylum as hum lum and when whon Colonel Hy ily Hying ly lyIng ing column of JOS men inca len and two Max Maxima line ima was ambushed and Ind wiped out by b the last luct April Apri the tho lie foreign ottlee sent General W H it Manning to crush Cruh the thc enemy nt at one auto blow General Manning himself was sub to many Indignities by b the he mol mud Jab lah nail it was Wil at Itt one reported that he hc had hiatt hll been beel surrounded I A desire delre was manifested in certain iuar tern tens ter In London to 10 recall General Maui Man Manning fling ning timid declare elare the campaign u a closed dol Incident but public of thin plan WOK was loud and Insistent unit and now hell Major I aJar General Charles CharieR Comyn lerton 1 lately commander in chief of ot I the Punjab frontier forces tor 1 In imi tl India hilts been ordered to supercede General Maiming and lr see ce what he lie can ca do lo to ameliorate the situation General gerton Egerton I will wi have hats under him n R force of nr WO OO 8 soldiers 1200 10 Indian troop troop and 40 native Africans The e Kings African black men recruited chiefly In South SouthA frien A have h e proved prod their willingness to light for fr the this honor of or the time crown In iii II the Somali campaign It I wn was they the who ho furnished the lie bulk hulk of the tho hit of or the disaster to 10 a Colonel ketts keUs column The Tho worth of the tha Indian troops I is i undisputed while the thin SOO 80 Tommies are arll to 10 supply the lie of nf the Ihl army am lImit Hut lut of ot nil ni th the varied varlo constituent I of or General I le leton tons ton command the camel corps corix Is ts by far the Ih mOIl mo t Important The Te peculiar Jular nature of nf the lie hinterland of I ha the chief dller oh ob ct to 10 a ii short tumid and Iet t n the capital of ot Irl lili ishi 11 and nd the this headquarters of tic the the lie tribe trib to which the hue Mail Mad belongs Is 18 an al arid and 20 mlle mIles long lol where only camels can 01 bv be b u ul used e l H 1 iii transports All Ail Al for the lie expedition must be carried across this thin de ert At on nn the Ihl Inner edge g of ot the windy sandy Indy plain General Genral Manning established a R depot to 10 make mak hi his hll expo l then ton n II little l U morn more Independent of ot Her Herl l beVa erA but hut this hag hai not nat lessened the tha value altie of time the Ih corn cr corps J To assemble nail and an equip a corps corp nf tat omell in a country where here these I are mire Ahn t the only of o tation and may 1 se sem seem m mat at lt first t to IM his it I simple under undertaking undertaking taking inkIng but those e who wha have hav hae hail lind charge of or he t work ran nUh tar for fo It 11 Its Ity y In the first place piece the natives are lr H Ish lab to 10 follow n a small band of or their warriors III In the tho hue of ot the tho mullahs main army did the rest rent General Mannings camel corn COrR once mutinied and nullified tie tho loud hind work of or months The This Somalia have An nn enormous ad nd advantage advantage vantage over oer their enemy In that they ft Are re able tn to fight antI and march on tho tIm scantiest of rations They Che will IvIll wil make makl a n forced for march Arch of at seventy mullet mlle on four t Pounds of dates datel a quart of or water per moan man On longer they th take Ilke two tso pounds of dates and amid alli a pint nt of ot wn iut Wi ter Ier for men each day Ila Their little ponies are quite as R hardy hard n II as the lie masters mater have been n known to go o two twit day duis with without without out water That hat horn hor nf of the lie African east it coast Aden ha hua hl from time thus Immemorial ilal rial enjoyed MI so N evil a reputation that In Imi Inthe Inthe the division of ot Africa anionic among Imong tho lie i law lawens ow ower W Wert er ert ens It H ilas left practically Iral I eu I untouched ns as records the hue coat coast line hint True there ha has hal ten been a 1 a it l an 11 Italian mid anti nn an hut htmL hit the rule of nf no non none no nf ot these lucite four our nn an nl has haf extended In far from noun tim tho shore Ax s K long bug n al as the tho lie ves moade no undue attempt to 10 Interfere with wih the hue trade which found Its Is outlet ulet and nd Inlet at Rt the Ihl vt frn Ho coast stations th they y were in to II fight among tl eta R ninth much RH as they len d but bul with wih the t hf lie rite rise ril of nr the some five yenta ago trou trouble trouble brew ble began to tu The Mail Mad Is if a Mohammedan 1 belonging to one of the tiu several ml orders of nf dervishes l Ill I Ills name me IK Is I Mo Mohammed Io hammed Abdullah He lie 1111 I is about thirty two years old olal tail lull and vigorous with regular features feature felure a Indent When he h tint liat lirt appeared on omi the Somali land horizon he ha had made four titmice time the thus long 1011 nail and to 10 Mecca IM and lint had luu edified Mil All house with wih whom he hut hI hail had come In hum contact by hy h Ills his piety and amid ld education He lie le was wal the ron con on of nt an Sn Ogaden anti and wa was W I bor among the herds Here ler he lie hI WM wan M found by ti b a jl t Mo Moslem l m who offered to 10 0 l hI icily uv him front from bin hii hi parents parent and hiring brine him ni iii 11 In a relIgious life l He lie made madl hi hil lila first r pIlgrimage when he his was wai 8 about twenty At t Mecca he hue made such luch an upon Mohammed Salah the supreme hues head of the Moslem fraternity that the thus latter kept him with wih him years yearn reNI an as 11 hi hil his favorite pupil The rh were at Unit inclined to 1 treat Abdullah HI In Wil was styled ItI the new nl lal dl ill ind at lt Ad Adf Aden n he wa was Wa given the lh fool fol lull ishu anal nickname Mad llad Mulish The word ward or U is t a lem oni on meaning priest K Jato thought he h IR is the Mad lad In isa II well endowed with the which inaki 11 kp a leader header of men mn He lie le II U an In adept at Intrigue mid and nd 11 hale has ha hAi enabled enable him to 10 confirm In the mInds of huts hit followers tho th belief helf that h h he If II I act actIng It trig Ing III onder the direct of ot the th prophet It I I is related of ot him that thai when at II the beginning of ot the nt un xin he h was wan 1 called upon by sonic doubter to ehe Ive hi lila people pl a Ile from haten he assembled albs them at night on an the lie th shore hore near ner which a Urit Uh Ih cruiser wa was He Ri Hf had bd i wn seen n tho II war ships March Ah light I ht nut out the th country and he hI alone of the Somali knew In what It I was waa WA until the bam am of light wa was Wi thrown full tul upon the ramp camp he hl announced that It was waH Wil a R from Mohammed directing him to begin a 1 holy war wa or Jehad against t lh Ih the laMI 0 upon but bul d bv by h II a gri r fr per r alI his hi Influence over hi his army I II is greeter greater than that tha of n a oie mt the best t drilled Ira Ju Just t what WhAI ha h Ill hue l I for or la I 1 a I of or f doubt It may b b be for jn f fw war for wars ws ak k l or em r for mr pron personal I ng rg ent UM bt Ill if it I I IH r W hf t I faD fanatical tle l b if i tha th unbeliever f is i the th mainspring j I tk ii I P n 4 not mint gt o separate them trout front the thus which serve Ire item m In II to so 10 many mail ways lal They depend an on 01 camels camell not lint only for thick their but hilt for their food roo antI ami raiment an as I well velh wel They make tasks their tents from rein the halt hair hall of or orthe the camel a 1 11 their leather from the akin and aunt Dually when thus the beasts are nl useful for tin no 0 other Purpose they ent eat them lucia th I Thru Then the guileless native noto lie hi lisa a 1 habit of ot pRiming palming off ott ar mi on the lie th unsophisticated agent his hll old and ami anImals rarely in one lint IR Is Rood goat for much The rho Th camel ramel Is II however much more di ell limn lien the hue camel came of India SHU MII ho lie Is in fat far front from being an nut Men ideal I war seat none birse and ant the Ihl who tho hn ha has ridden one cue ole of ot thel animals with lh lila Ills racking pace PS so 1 conducive to In seasickness nea eu across orol the thelong long Ionic of desert te rt wil viii ill probably Pare cure little It If th tho ilni mulish gets get el him at It the hue Ihl end nd ad The camel can dislocate more bones bone In a given Iven time line tItan than any other ether animal known to 10 An attempt was made adt to tn use tune I a 1 camel an as al a 1 traveling battery but only one oe shot hot was wan al fired Ired the Maxim on hi his back hack The Tte TI rang erang IrAnA battery proved tn to be b a boom boomerang Oln Camel 1 are orl very ery Iry easily stampeded t thin hula 1111 fact act explain several of or the recent defeats The stampeding or of thin tho camel corps corpo cor by hr the Somalia om IH an 11 Important In niP hue nm am bushing of nf Colonel fund alone The hl Fo So wiliness In lit 1 persuading the thus N |
