THE BATTLE OF SOUDAN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 303, 24 November 1883, Page 2

THE BATTLE OF SOUDAN.

Puller Details. „ v A Teriible Straggle. Fighting against Overwhelming Odds. , A Co^ete Massawei.; fe * Ten Thousand Men Slaughtered. ' The Opposing Force Tifee Hundred ■!:■-) ■"■- -. Thousand; Intense Excitement m Cairo. (BY KLKOTBIO TELTOBAJH-rOOP^IHGH'r.) , ' (REOTKK's TELEGRAMS.) „ Alexandria, Kov. 22. 'Th? intelligence of the and annihilationjof tlie Egypfciau Army m Soudan is now fully confirmed. Accounts received this evening phow that General Hicks had concentrated his^ ehitre force, consisting of 10.00Q men and 10 fcritash officers, iWten. the attack was made by the „ enemy," lander l^ahdj, Talsc Prophet, whose fe»l- . loWersafje said to have numbered three hundred thousand. On the approach of the rebels, Hicks Pasha formed his troops into a hollow square, and m this position withstood the attack, for three ' days, during which time the fighting was continuous and most desperate on both sides. Ak the end of t^ Ijhirdjday the square was bioken, and a general iwnt^^ diTßgyptiana irasuc{r rr^^ enemy ' then fell on the defeated army and the slaughter was terrible, the whole force of ten thousand mien, including General Hicks and. the t British T officers, being killed. Thte intelligence caused intense excitement m Cairo, and it is expected that the proposed evacuation of that city by the British forces now stationed there will bepostjponed. '■