THE SOUDAN.
[Received Match 20,12.15 p.m.]
Caieo, March 19.
Intelligence has been received that a large body of Bedouins occupied Sabooka near the fifth Nile cataract, and communication beyond Berber is consequently prevented; the roads to that town being m possession of the Bedouins. News is'also to hand that a considerable force of the Sebel tribes are collected near Shendy, a town about ICO miles north of Khartoum, and it is stated that an attack upon thi.t place (Shendy) is imminent*
[Specials to the Pbess Association]
London, March 17
The majority in the Cabinet, it is undi-:•-■ stood, desire to declare a protector;:-1? over Egypt for a fixed period, but ilr Gladstone and lord Derby are opposed to such a proceeding. The struggle between the two parties is said to be of an acuta character.
March 18,
Osman Digna is reported to be camp d nine miles from lamaneb, trying to reassemble his forces.
The application for a new trial of Belt v. Law's case bas been refused.
A severe attack of small-pox has broken out at Madras. A large number of cases are reported, and considerable alarm is felt at the spread of the disease.
Osman Digna bas rallied 2030 of his troops, and has resolvtd to fight.
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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4743, 20 March 1884, Page 2
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