THE ADVANCE TO KHARTOUM.
Cairo, December 24. Intelligence has been received from Dongola to the effect that 64 of the whale boats conveying troops to the front have arrived at Korti, on the Nile, noar Ainbukol, where the concentration of troops is rapidly proceeding. The Mudir of Dongola telegraphs that a Bedouin from Amderman, a village near Khartoum, which place he left on the 9th inst., has arrived, and reports that the Mahdi has sent seven corps to reinforce his armies at Berber against the approach of the British troops, under Lord Wolseley on that t3wn. Cairo, December 27. Telegrams to hand from the front report that a detachment of artillery has reached Korti, and that preparations are proceeding for the advance of all the troops that have arrived there on Meraweh, an important position on the Nile, about 30 miles to the northward of Korti.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1947, 30 December 1884, Page 2
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146THE ADVANCE TO KHARTOUM. Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1947, 30 December 1884, Page 2
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