THE SOUDAN.
Caibo, May 16.
News is to hand of an engagement havicg taken place at Gedarez, ia the Soudan, between the friendly natives and a force of dervishes commanded by Oaman Digna. The dervishes were defeated and Osman wounded, but he succeeded in escaping.
London, May 20.
Mr Cecil Rhodes stated in the course of an interriew that he expects Sir H. H. Kitchener's Soudan forces to enter Khartoum in October next, and that within &ye years from-that time the African continental telograph .system will be completed.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2308, 26 May 1898, Page 13
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88THE SOUDAN. Otago Witness, Issue 2308, 26 May 1898, Page 13
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