THE SOUDAN.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4740, 17 March 1884, Page 2

THE SOUDAN.

Caibo, March 14

The latest telegrams from Souakim report tbat Ofiman Digna, with the remnant of his followers, has retreated to the hills near Tamaneb.

It has been definitely prored that in the recent battle the r.bels suffered more heavily than was at first supposed* Their logs' in killed alone is 4300, and the wounded exceed that number. The whole of the .British troops engaged in the battle near Tamaueb are now reluming to povakim,

Major-General Graham telegraphs from Sonakim that the |3.heikh Mohamed, a prominent Arab chief,of the eastern Soudan has expressed his belief that the recent victory of the British will have the effect of pacifying the natives of that district, and that the road to Berber will cow be open.

[Received Maroh 17,11.45 a.m.]

Caieo, March 15.

Telegrams from Souakim announce the return of general Graham to that place ; his forces are now arriving there also. Before leaving the scene of the recent battle, all the villages in the neighbor* hood of Tamaneb, occupied by Osman's followers, were burned to the ground.

London, March 15

In the House of Commons to-day, Lord Hartington, Secretary of State and War, in reply to a question, announced that intelligence had been received that the telegraph wire between Shendy and Khartoum had been cut, and that a steamer from Khartoum had been set upon. It was assumed, His Lordship added, from these facts that the tribes inhabiting the country between Shendy and Khartoum are now in rebellion.

Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice, Political Secretary to the Foreig;q Office, replying to a question, stated that orders had been sent to General Graham not to advance upon Berber.