THE WAR IN SOUDAN.
[REUTERS TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. RETREAT OF BRITISH COLUMN TO GAKDUL. ATTACKS BY REBELS ON BRITISH ADVANCE WORKS. (Received March 1, 10.20 a.m.) Cairo, February 28. Telegrams are to hand announcing that the British column under MajorGeneral Buller reached Gakdul from Abu Idea yesterday. The retreat was made without molestation by the rebels. The latest news from Souakim states that the rebel tribes in the neighborhood are making nightly attacks on the British advance works, which have in several places been wrecked by the attackers.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2647, 2 March 1885, Page 2
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