"THE PRESS" WAR MAP.

Press, Issue XLI, 25 February 1885, Page 5

"THE PRESS" WAR MAP.

With to-morrow's Press will be issued a map of the seat of war in North Africa, the most complete yet published in these col onus. It shows the Nile from the Ist Cataract to the junction of the White and Blue Niles at Khartoum, and then follows these rivers into Kordofan and Sennar, and takes in the whole scene of Hicks Pacha's ill-fated expedition to El Obeid. In the space thus covered is marked every spot in Egypt made famous by the doings of British soldiersduringthe present war. The six cataracts whichhave taxed the powers of the relief force; Korti, Lord Wolseley's head-quarters; General Earle'a line of march from Korti to Buka, where the brave commander met his fate; General Stewart's line of march across the desert; Gordon's road to Khartoum; the battles of Abu Klea, where the daring Bumaby fell, and of El Metemneh, where General Stewart, since dead, was wounded ; Shabnkli, the scene of Lord Charles Beresford's plucky rescue of the wrecked party under Colonel Wilson; and Khartoum, where the heroic Gordon, after defying all else, succumbed to treachery; all are shown e'ear'y and vividly. The map has been skilfully planned to take in part of the Egyptian littoral of the Bed Sea, and the route between Suakim and Berber is carefully delineated, with the topography of the desert country crossed, and the names of the Arab tribes. A very full key map includes the whole of the Bed Sea and part of the Mediterranean, and the interior of Northern Africa to within live degrees of the Equator. In fact with this map no one will have the slightest difficulty in gaining at once a thorough grasp of the position of affairs in the Soudan. For instance, the strength of the Mahdi's position in his entrenchments at Khartoum, at the junction of the Blue and White Niles, becomes clear at the first glance, and a separate plan of Khartoum with its fortifications, which ia added, further exhibits the strategic importance of that town. Not the least valuable of the information given is the table of distances to Khartoum, first from Cairo and then from Suakim, with tire alternatives on each route. Owing to the great interest excited by the Egyptian campaign, it is unnecessary to commend this map to our reader's attention; but in view of the likelihood of continued operations in the Soudan, we may remind them that the convenient size of the map and the clearness of its lettering and general arrangement, will - render it an easy task to add to the information already supplied, the names of places which may be rendered famous during the coming months as the -scenes of great events.