CHASING CORRESPONDENTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1990, 14 May 1885, Page 2

CHASING CORRESPONDENTS.

(United Press Association.)

Wellington, this day. The special correspondent of the Sydney Evening News telegraphs the following from Suakim. under date of May Gth:—Directly the fight atThekulb had terminated the correspondents] umped on their horses and rode back to Hasheen, to be first to bring the news. Before they had gone far they became unpleasantly aware that they wero .being watched and followed- by Arab scouts, and when about half way, a number of Arabs closed in upon them, yelling andbrandishing spears, throwing those' shorter spears like assegais, and firing rifles. Tho Arabs were on camels, and itbecamc a case of amm qui pent with the newspaper men. They sat down in their saddles, rammed home their persuaders, and did tho fastest match against time and Arab camels .that they had thought possible. As it was, they had a pretty narrow squeak for it, as the children of the desert succeeded in getting tolerably close to them more than once, and bullets, spears, and camel sticks flew around them as thickly as the rice and flowers that were strewn upon the contingent when it marched down the streets of Sydney. But the newspaper men escaped, not wholly scatheless, however, for Mr Lambie, of the Sydney Morning Herald, was wounded in the leg. The affair was quite lively enough for the correspondents.