An item dated London, England 5th reported the departure from Mombasa [Kenya] a day earlier of a steamship with 1.100 men of the regiment Kings Africans bound for Berbera [British Somaliland Protectorate nowadays Somalia]. At Kismaju [Somalia] was a camel corps to be embarked.(1)
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1. The British government was for decades trying to deal with the resistance by the so-called Dervish State resulting in four British expeditions. The British forces were even driven back to the coastal region until the Dervishes were beaten in 1920.
