SOUDAN CAMPAIGN.

Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 340, 13 September 1898, Page 3

SOUDAN CAMPAIGN.

SICKNESS IN THE RANKS. (BY ELEECTRIC telegraph—copyright.) Cairo, September 11. General Kitchener will not permit newspaper correspondents to proceed to Fashoda, and has ordered them to return to Cairo immediately. Most of the British troops are returning hastily te Cairo frern the front, owing to the prevalence of sickness in the ranks. Already there have been 10 deaths. The Khalifa's steamer was sent to Fashoda, but returned aud surrendered to General Kitchener. The commander reports the whites at Fashoda fired on the vessel, nearly destroying her and killiug many aboard. It is believed that the bullets found in the hull are French, and that the vessel was attacked by one of the French expeditions known to be making toward Fashoda. Neufeld, the German trader, so long a prisoner at Oindurman, relates that one of the Lyddite shells fired by the Biitish burst in a mosque, killing 106 out of 112 people in the building at the time. Sir Herbert Kitchener urges the endowment of a Gordon College at Khartoum for the purpose of educating the sheiks' sons. Ahmed Fedil, one of the Khalifa's geuerals, commands a Dervish army of 3000 at Gadaref. An eyewitness states that General Gordon's head was exposed on a pole for three days at Ou.durman, and that the body was thrown into the Nile. (Received September 12, 8.50 a.m.) Cairo, September 11. Lieutenant Harrington, British agent in Abyssinia, has started from Zeila to inform King Menelik of the result of the battle at Omdurman. The Khalifa's principal wife has been captured.