THE WAR IN SOUDAN.
[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] l.)y Ki.rccTitic Tklkgraph—Copyright. > < THE BERBER GARRISON AND THE REBELS. GORDON AND THE BESIEGERS OF KHARTOUM. A FUSILADE WITH THE REBEL ARABS NEAR SOUAKIM. (Received June 3, 1.30 p.m.) Caiko, June 2. Despatches to hand from the Governor of Dougola state that the province has been pacified, and that an engagement has been fought between the garrison at Berber and the rebels, in which the latter were defeated with heavy loss.
Information has been received from Khartoum that Gordon continues to hold out against the besiegers, and has been successful in various engagements. Telegrams from Souakim report that a body of rebels approached the town, and a fusilade, lasting two hourx* was kept up with them by the garrison, after which the rebels retired.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2482, 3 June 1884, Page 2
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