THE SOUDAN.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4741, 18 March 1884, Page 2

THE SOUDAN.

Cairo, March 16.

A telegram from Souakim states that Admiral Hewitt and General Graham have conferred with the leading sheikhs of the loyal tribes, and that a reward of £1030 has been offered for the rebel leader Osman Digna, alive or dead.

Caieo, March 17.

A detachment numbering a thousand British troops is about to start for Haudak, a town on the Kile between Assouan, on the Nubian frontier, and Khartoum. The troops will fortify the position there, with a view to check any advance of the rebels in that direction.

London, March 17.

It is announced that the British Government has expressed its disapproval of the action of General Graham in placing a price on the head of Osman Digna.

London, March 14.

Further details of the late engagement in the Soudan, state that the Arabs, by an impetuous charge, broke the square commanded by Colonel Davis, and, creating a panic, succeeded in making a temporary capture of the guns. The cavalry, however, came to the rescue, and checked the enemy, and thus afforded time for the brigade to be reformed, and it then recaptured the guns. Colonel Buller's force proceeded without check, and captured and burnt the enemy's camp. The Arabs have now fled to the mountains.

Later

Major-General Graham's force has returned to Souakim, after burning four Tillages and exploding vast stores of captured ammunition. The bodies of fifteen hundred Arabs were found at the spot where the square under Colonel Davis was broken.. The total British loss proves to be one hundred and twenty, of which number the 65th Regiment lost thirty, and the Black-watch sixty-five, including ten sergeants. *

[Speciais to the Pbess Association!

London, March 16,

Lord Hartington has implied that Major»General Graham may possibly advance as far as Berber.

Seven hundred anarchists have been expelled from Vienna.

The Eev. Sidney Lynton will be (.consecrated to the see of Riverina in Lincoln Cathedral by the Bishop of that diocese. Obituary: R. H. Home, author of "Orion." Mr Gladstone is confined to his house. It is hoped that Abyssinia may be induced to withdraw the Kassala garrison. The French captured ICO guns at Bacninh. Their loss was 8 killed and 30 wounded. The pursuit of the Chinese is being continued.

Anxiety is being felt in Cairo regarding he safety of General Gordon.

The French Government have determined to appoint an official resident at Obok, in Abyssinia.

In the House of Commons, Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, •stated that the Government have not yet decided whether they will invite the foreign Powers to co-operate in ,the repression of outrages in the Pacific. -

London, March 13.

Sir F. Dillon Bell, Mr Murray Smith, Sir Saul Samuel, and Mr Hemmant, have met to consider the report of the Western Pacific Commission, and the hostile attitude assumed by Sir A. Gordon to the Australian Pacific policy. Mr Hemmant urged that they should f^oceed to consider the report of the Commission, which, he considered, struck at the root of the policy approved of by the Australian colonies, and the meeting finally determined to await instructions from their respective Governments before taking any action.