THE SOUDAN WAR
-,-■.■■ ■ ■■' -■"-. '-!* — "~ — • -•■ ' J tblegbaMs.V ~. t -'". x :■<■ ' ApriilO. Sir herald Graham has .issued a proclamation, calling upon the rebel Arabs to submit to him and furnish provisions and cattle for.the use of the British, otherwise they must be prepared to take the consequences of their resistance. ; ' April 12. The inative sheiks in the neighborhood of this place in consequence of Graham's proclamation., are rapidly tendering submission and it is expected that when, the British advance is completed as far as Tambouk nearly all the tribes will have offered allegiance to British authority. It is rumored that Osman Digna has fled, hisifollpwers having deserted him; .. A .^p^y of British cavalry has been' despatched to reconnoitre and ajcertaia whether the report is correct. * hundred : und ; fifty men of the New- South Wales contingent have been left behind to. garrison Suakim. T&iiaivsLS, entered find burnt by the Bri^ih after the. Arabs were driven to the mountains. The wells; were found te be choked, and the troops returned toSudtint. : The New South Wales infantry and artillery will be employed in the construction of the railway from here to the mountains in the neighborhood of Tamai. ..,...,.
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 128, 14 April 1885, Page 3
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191THE SOUDAN WAR Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 128, 14 April 1885, Page 3
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