SOUDAN WAR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1637, 18 March 1884, Page 2

SOUDAN WAR.

(Reuters Telegrams- •Copyright,) ~.. LONDON,, ':, ~ . March H... Pull particulars are now to hand from Spuakim regarding ( .the defeat of. the rebels near Tatnaneb, j The British troops advanceJ from Zareba in two squares' and shortly' car ae up with the enemy, who.at once opened fire,. They attacked the British 'columns most fiercely;- arid repeated'ly • broke the leading .square, andsifter desperate | fighting, caphired some' of our guns, I and drove back- the J ist- battalion of the,.York and later, Regiment however, .speedjly. rail, led, "and further heavy fighting topk'p'li. fee. '' The rebels were finally driven '1 iackj- completely defeated,, and" the :gnns lost in : the early : part of?' the;; battle roptur'ed. The fighting lftsfced for;:fully;two hours and a half." during 'ivKicn- time the whole., of .bfptU w,ere' .actively engaged;' '%& rebels' lost 3000_ killed and' 4000 wounded, The previons telegrams, Betting thoj British V'obs at 70 killed and 1001

wounded- >are confirmed. The Ist battallion ;Royal 'Highlanders (42nd Foot) were the heaviest sufferers. \ r l j : Kpairov

Maroh.l4.

"Received March 16, 11 a.m.—Latest telegrams to hand from Souakim report that Osman Digneh, with the remnant of his followers, has retreated to the' hills near. Tamaneb.' ■ It': has! been definitely proved that in the recent battle the rebels suffered. more heavily than was at first supposed, Their loss in killed alone is now set: down at fully 4300, and the wounded exceed that number. The whole of the British troops engaged in oattlc near Tamaneb are now returning to Souakim. Major-General -Graham telegraphs from Souakim that Sheikh' Mahomed, a prominent Arab chief ot Eastern Soudan, has expressed his belief thai the recent victory of the British will have tho ; effect of pacifying the natives in that district, and that the road to Berber will now be, open. CAIRO, . March 15. ; Received March 17, 1;45 p.m.Telegrams from Souakim announce the return of General Graham to that place, and that his forces are now arriving. there. The telegram states that before leaving the scene of the recent battle all the villages in the neighborhood of Tamaneb occupied by Osman's followers wero burned to the ground* LONDON, / ' l|i: March 15.'. In the House of Commons to-day Lord Hartington, Secretary of State for War, replying to a question, nnnoimced that intelligence lad been received that the telegraph wire between Shondy'and Khartoum has been cut, and that a steamer from Khartoum had been fired upon. It was. assumed, his Lordship ,added, from these facts, that tho tribes 'inhabiting the country between Shendy and Khartoum were now in rebellion.

Lord Edmund Fitzmaurico, Political Secretary to tho Foreign office, in reply to a question, stated that orders had been sent to Generel Graham not to advaace upon Berber. • ' ■' .