Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954), Friday 15 February 1952, page 1


Assassination Of A Caliph In Tunisia

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TUNIS. Feb. 14.

Si Sliman Ben Hamouda. Caliph of Gafsa, Southern Tunisia, was shot dead last night by an assailant armed with a pistol. The bullet pierced the Caliph's heart. The assassin escaped. In the Sac area, two French gendarmes were killed in an ambush late last night, as they drove through the Koularech Pass near Gafsa.