THE WAR IN EGYPT
reutkr's telegrams. Lonpon, December 11. Further engagements with the -rebels have taken place in the Soudan- Five hundred Soudanese, with 200 Bashi Bazouks, 20 cavalry, aad armed with mountain guns, were attacked by Osman Muhi, a partisan of El Mahdi's, twenty miles from Souakin, on December 2nd The Bazouks broke helplessly, throwing the Soudanese into great confusion. The latter resisted bravely, and defended their position with clubbed muskets. The rebels, who numbered 3,000, however, completely overwhelmed them, and, with the exception of 45 escaped, they were all killed. An attack on Dongola and Khartoum is expected daily. Caibo, Dec. 12. The Arab Hillmen are mustering in large numbers in the neighbourhood of Souakim. and it is expected that they will make a night attack upon the garrison and town. H.M.s gun vessel Raglan, now cruising off the coast, is attacking the rebels with rocket fire, wit 1 ' a view of preventing their approach against the town.
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 82, 13 December 1883, Page 2
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