Soudan Affairs
Joy Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. J PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION, j Suakim, January 14. It is reported that a large force of dervishes left Donglos, and are marching in the direction of Wady Haifa. Two hundred Cossacks, estensibly bound for Obok, en board an Austrian steamer, have arrived here. Tliey were closely " shadowed" by an Italian warship, which dropped finclvor shortly after their arrival. January 15. A skirmish with the rebels took place to-day, but the latter were repivlsed. There were no casualty on the side of the British. Paris, January 15. With reference to the reported arrival »t Snakim of 200 Cossacks on board an Austrian steamer, ostensibly bound for Obok, a French settlement on the northern coast «f Tajura Bay, Gulf of Babel Mandeb, instructions have been sent to =the Governor of Obok to resist the landing •of any armed parties in that colony.
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 83, 17 January 1889, Page 3
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