ROUNDING UP THE DERVISH TRIBESMEN.
0 WORK OF THE EGYPTIAN CAMEL . CORPS. By Telopraoli—Presa Ausoclation-CoD.vrizht "Times'"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. (Rcc. January 5, 8.30 p.m.) London, January 5. Earl Percy (Grenadier Guards), describing the work of tho Egyptian Camel Corps in South Kordofan, states that the Baygara. tribesmen —remnants of a fierce warrior tribo who formed tho main fighting strength of the Dervishes —had retreated to the mountain fastnesses, retiring into the bowels of tho earth, whence they used to popper the attacking troops. The Cainel Corps recently explored the labyrinthian recesses in which the Baygara Dervishes had hidden, and though some losses were sustained, the tribesmen were compelled to realise that their immunity, had at length vanished, and that the arm of the Government was able to reach them. ' PUNITIVE EXPEDITION. (Rec'. January 6, 0.45 a.m.) Cairo, January 5. A punitive expedition under Captain 'Faii'bairn has dispersed 1000 Nncrs, K pastoral tribo inhabiting tho Sudan, near iho confluences of the Bahr-cl-Jebe.l, Bahr-el-Ghagal, and tho Lobat ■Rivers.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1650, 6 January 1914, Page 5
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166ROUNDING UP THE DERVISH TRIBESMEN. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1650, 6 January 1914, Page 5
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