The Soudan Campaign.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 288, 11 June 1896, Page 2

The Soudan Campaign.

o- - (Per Press Association.) Cairo, Juno 9. Menelek, ruler of Abyssinia, has informed the Khalifa that although they have religious differences their interests are identical, and he asserts he is prepared to assist the Khalifa. It is suspected that French and Bus- ( sian agents are prompting Menelek. Kitchener, Commandant of the forces, reports that in the recent engagement at Firkeh the Egyptian allies behaved splendidly. 450 prisoners were taken. Thammade and several other Emirs were killed. June, 10. Khalifa lost the beet of his fighting men i at Ferkeh, and 30 Emirs. The Sirdar ] has sent infantry to hold Suarda. The enemy's grain boats are captured, and all tbe Dervishes North of Suarda are killed or captured. The Egyptian forces hold the Nile Valley to that point. Many of the prisoners captured at Ferkeh have been recognised by Slatin Bey, including an Emir, who befriended him while he was a prisoner in Soudan. Slatin writes from Suakim that the Khalifa daily persecutes European prisoners and threatens to put them to death. London, June 9. i The Standard's correspondent says the j Soudanese troops appropriated women, who were taken prisoners after the fight at Ferkeh. The Dervish camp, with great quantities of supplies, was captured. «___■_■__■ __BM____