THE WAR IN SOUDAN.
[REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright,
GEN. WOLSELEY PROCEEDING TO SUAKIN. (Received April 30, 3 p.m.) Cairo, April 29. General Lord Wolseley left Dongola to-day for Suakin. Reports were current in Suakin on the 7th ult. that General Lord Wolseley was coming to Suakin to assume command of General Graham’s force. General Ereemantle, who has command of the Brigade of Guards, including the Australian Contingent, has expressed himself as being very highly pleased with the general smartness of the Australians in building the zareba near Handoub Y/ells, their ingenuity in providing shelter from the enemy’s fire, the judgment displayed in suppressing their fire when it could not be effective, and the conspicuous cleanness of their camp. On the 7th April the Australians and the other troops made rapid progress in clearing a wide roadway for the railway line, which is being constructed at the rate of nearly two miles per day. An Arabian paper reports that the Mahdi promised Faragh £20,000 to betray Khartoum, but only gave Mm £9OOO, and when Faragh complained, the Mahdi hanged him.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2686, 1 May 1885, Page 2
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