The Soudan Campaign.
Telegraph. Press \ssi ciatiou Copyright Caiko. December '24. The garrison at Mother lias been strengthened, and detachments of troops have been sent up the river at Bara to prevent the Dervishes' movement northwards. Tho Dervishes at Sbendy and Metetnmeh are advancing on Berber. December 25. The native levies at Kassala have captured a Dervish post at Bara. The Dervjsb.es suffered heavy losses. December 27. The officers of the F.gyptiau army have advised t!>at 12,000 troops will bo required for the Anglo-Egjptian campaign in the Soudau. Six hundred Ascaris tribesmen have joined the Egyptian garrison sent to invest Kassala upou its recession by Italy to Egypt.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 154, 28 December 1897, Page 3
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