The Soudan Campaign.
(Per Press Association.) Cairo, Sept. 22. Eight of the late Hicks Pasha's gunners were forced to serve with the Dervishes but in loading the guns omitted to insert fusea in the shells. Subsequently they deserted from the ranks. Shells fired from the Dervisbes' runs repeatedly hit the Egyptian gunboats, but as the fuses were absent they failed to do any damage. One of the shells dropped into the magazine of one of the gunboats. Only women and children were found in Dongola, but a granary, a mile from the river, was found to be strongly guarded. The gunboats then returned and will resadvance on Dongola parallel with the troops. fe Sept. 23. Gunboats bombarded Dongola and caused the dismounting of one of the guns. Tne troops are at Zowaret, five miles from Dongola, and fighting is exs pected immediately. Bishara Arabs are hastily raising earthworks.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 74, 24 September 1896, Page 2
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148The Soudan Campaign. Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 74, 24 September 1896, Page 2
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