The Soudan War.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 239, 19 September 1884, Page 2

The Soudan War.

DESPATCHES FROM GENERAL GORDON. REBELS AGAIN DEFEATED. [Reuter’s Telegrams.) Cairo, September 16. Lord A\ 7 olsley is busy organising the proposed expedition to Khartoum, and in connection therewith has ordered the formation of a camel corps, consisting of equal detachments of the guards and of household and other cavalry. Sept. 17. Telegrams are to hand reporting that a battle has been fought near Souakim between the friendly Arabs and a tribe of rebel Hadendowas, and that the latter met with a decisive defeat at the hands of the friendly Arabs. The Nile continues to rise, and the first of the steamers intended for the transport of troops has successfully passed the second cataract at AVadyhalfa. A despatch from General Gordon, dated Khartoum, August 26, has been received here by telegraph from the Nubian frontier. In the despatch General Gordon states that he is awaiting the arrival of British troops in the Soudan, and again requests that Zebehr Pasha may be sent to him, and £300,000 sterling. General Gordon also announces that he commands the road from Khartoum to Berber, and that he intends to despatch a force to occupy the latter place in a few days from the date of his despatch.