Fighting in the Soudan
By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (per united pbess association.) Suakim, September 19, The rebels in large numbers are massed at Handoub, and last night they" made a determined attempt to obtain possession of the causeway connecting _. this place with the mam land. A. detach • j mentof Egyptian soldiers and fiiendlies,. i who went out to oppose the invading; i force, were overpowered by the rebels < api driven back to town. The rebelsmight have followed up this advantage* \.. _ I and thus pi iced the safety of the town inJ . : jeopardy but for the timely assistance of .';. |a British gunboat in the harbour^ which ' ' shelled tue rebel position and forced them ;to beat a hasty retreat The! rebel* Uuffere i a heavy loss in the skirmish and • jfrom the shells of the steamer. The RUn- ,' boat su bsequentjy landed. a . f «roe of '■ msrines to assist in defemJing the town. „ \ '■'■ : \:- ' September 20» ; Severe fighting has taken place on i ther 1 outskirts of the town. Two hundred marines and • veral thousand natives are reported to have been, killed.
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 45, 22 September 1888, Page 2
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