THE WAR IN THE SOUDAN.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1149, 11 March 1884, Page 1

THE WAR IN THE SOUDAN.

London, March 5. The remainder of Baker Pasha’s guns and a quantity of plunder have been recovered near Tokar, and the Arabs appear cowed. Mr E, Stanley, M.P., has given notice of a motion for refusing to vote war supplies until the policy of the Government in regard to Egypt and the Soudan is fully explained to Parliament. March 6. In the House of Commons to-day, the Marquis of Hartingtou, Secretary of War, in reply to a question, stated that it had been left to the option of Major-General Graham whether an attack should be made upon the rebels under Osman Digna, who is now menacing Souakim. March 7. Major-General Graham has determined to attack Osman’s forces unless they at once disperse. Cairo. March 4. Telegrams are to hand from Souakim stating that the British troops at Tokar and other places in the neighborhood are returning to Trinkitat, where the whole force will concentrate to-morrow prior to being re-embarked. Intelligence is also to hand that a considerable number of the inhabitants of Tokar and of Egyptian troops who formed the garrison of that town prior to its relief by General Graham, are now arriving at Souakim. March 5. Latest telegrams 4:om Souakim report that Admiral Hewitt, commanding the East Indian Squadron, will very shortly proceed on a mission to Abyssinia, the object of which has not transpired, Major-General Graham, commanding the British forces in the Soudan, has arrived at Souakim from Trinkitat. Evening. To-day’s despatches from Souakim state that the rebels under Osman Digna, who were encamped near that place, have assumed a bellicose attitude. March 6, Intelligence has been received to-day that the British troops from Trinkitat have arrived at Souakim and have landed there. News is to hand that hostilities have broken out in Kordofan, between the rebels and certain loyal tribes, and an engagement was recently fought at a place to the northward of Obekl. The followers of El Mabdi mustered fully a thousand, but the loyal Arabs mustered in strong force and inflicted a severe defeat upon the rebels. March 7. The first and second battalions of the Royal Sussex Regiment have been ordered to proceed to Sioot, a town about 150 miles south of this city, on the Nile in Upper Egypt. The ultimate destination of the Iroops has not transpired. News has been received from Jeddah, a seaport of Arabia, on the eastern shore of the Red Sea, that Bedouin Arabs living in the neighborhood have broke out in revolt and have already committed great excesses.