THE WAR IN THE SOUDAN.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1160, 3 April 1884, Page 1

THE WAR IN THE SOUDAN.

London, March 30. The King of Abyssinia, at the head ot an army of 25,000 m n, has met an 3 welcmed Admiral Hewitt, who recent y proceeded there on a secret missi n\ Major-General Graham distrusts the sincerity of the professed friendly Arabs,

and is not in favor of a British advance being made- on Berber. March 31. The latest information from Cairo states that Osman Digna has returned to Tamaneb, the scene of the recent engagement with Major-General Graham's forces. When Gordon Pasha made a sortie against the rebels surrounding Khartoum his Egyptian forces numbered 2000 men, who fled at the approach of sixty Arab horsemen, and they retreated into the city, suffering great loss. Tt is estimated that fully 200 Egyptinns were killed. The rebels captured two guns. April 1. El Mahdi has refused to accept the offered fciultanship of Kordofan. The arrival of a British force is daily expected at Khartoum. Cairo, March 30. Telegrams from Scudau state that Gordon Pasha made sortie from Khartoum on the 16th instant at the head of a strong force of Egyptian troops. The latter proved perfectly untrusworthy, and Hfd at the fir-it charge of the Arab cavalry, 200 being killed. March 31. Telegrams to hand from Khartoum state that Gordon Pasha is adopting stringent measures to suppress dissatistion among the Egyptian troops forming the garrison of that town, and has caused to be executed two Soudan Pashas for treachery during the disastrous sortie on the 16th. MajorGeneral Gordon reports that he has received supplies, and is hopeful that his measures for the suppression of the rebellion will meet with success. Reports had reached him to the effect that the enemy were greatly in want of provisions, and that numbers of them are in k famishing condition.