THE SOUDAN WAR

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 123, 2 April 1885, Page 2

THE SOUDAN WAR

"■'■ : ' : ■■" ■ ■;' _ ss^,'mmE. ;- i The rema|n^r " ,ot the r/ New tffcnth Wales eont jngeiit port Australasia t&s afternoon. The troops oii landing "were , receiyettj^ith enthusiastic cheering. ' 'It 'nasCbeen. decided that the colo^al troops 'iHall ' W brigaded with -the 'CRitfrtJ£^': { & A spy who has retuMied'topSufiltim from Tamai reports that Osttian'l^pa's troops ard deserting in large" The spies who camein frota&ai««eii, Tamai, report that the have evacuated the villages- Hn the neighborhood, and a detachmQntibf •Bavalry will consequently reconnoitre in/tho direction of Taiflai to-morrow, -m In the reconnaisance>made to-daj as far as Hasseeri, a f ew r of -thejreßels were encountered, hutstheycreifciredioii the approach of the British troops. The construction of ia litoe of railway from this place to ,ia being vigorously proceeded i with; inirr ■ t } The. New South Wales- Infantry were reviewed this afternoon by'general Graham. f The ( Colohialß wore* 4he 4tew karkeeuniform and' presenlie^ a^famartf^ap. pearance. f In cohseqnence of the disa^pewi^ceof the T^beLs fromthe'ileighborhood of Hasseen, the proposed general advancefrbin this ' J place to TaiifkJ''ifa»^lfeea postponed for ia : day'Wtw^. / : ; : . > ftp^oKrßKrciraft. The correspondent of the Daily Telegraph praises thelphy4que and ap« pearance of the '(rtlonMjtrpoj^ gr t j • : The DaUy JJew#' TOij^e^nden^ in Egypt states that Osman Dignahanj sent a flag of truce, to S^ Gerald Gra-^ iham,; asking fop. oond^iqnftjgl^je. ■V-i '■( ••^Caibo, March 31. ;►•s£*s Soudan f states, that the rebellion and the malcppents 1 nW^hold El