THE SOUDAN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 93, 23 March 1885, Page 3

THE SOUDAN.

FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE FIGHTING. (KLEO.TRIG TELEGRvPH^-COPYRIOBT.) ,: ,i '■■... (KfiDTßlt'S TEIjEQBAMS.") Souaktm, March 21. ■ Afternoon accounts to hand of the battle which took place yesterday m the neighborhood of Hassen with the rebels nuclei- Osrnan Di»na, m which the British were victorious at all points, give the latter's loss at twenty-two killed ,, and forty- four wounded. „ March 22. A considerable force, iinder comnifliind', of ]^ajor-General.M^cNeiU () stk^ed I fro'm thief place this morning, formed into two BquKres and proceeded; m the direction of Taraai and on atrival there will construct zarebas, and Berkshire. (Regiment : . will • > reniam as a garrison to 'th^e position^ the ; > .rest of the force retvrrning -to camp* • Neyß;sinoe received 'state • that a ; large bodiv of rebels leftt 1 . Oaihan Digda's head /.quarters the intention of intercept- 1 ; . ihg| MacNeili's force'^ but the movetrients beiijig observed 'from the British zareba. has been jthat, a heavy cannonade was' . opened : upon them with the result of this advance being checked, and a large number: killed and wounded. .1 ,-..■... '..'•■; ;. ,LoifDp?r, Jan. 21. .General Graham telegraphs to; the 1 Wur Office from Suakim: He yesterday cleared the hills around Ha&sen of the . rebels after severe fighting. The enemy ; numbered four thousand and suffered ; heavy, loss.; After the battle' they retired to Tamai. General Grahaiia further . .states that a zareba has been formed at Hasten with, a survey regiment and a . battery of; artillery with six guns . , as , a garrison, the remainder of the troopsi returned tO Camp. • •■' ■■'.;'■'. '-:.