THE WARIN THE SOUDAN.

Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 110, 2 June 1885, Page 3

THE WAR IN THE SOUDAN.

INDICATIONS OF AN AUTUMN CA-MfAION. ARAB OPPOSITION TO THE BERBER RAILWAY. The Soudan doapatchos of 29th April say that tho hostilo Arabs are again becoming troublesome to tha British. Scouting parties of these belligerents make constant attempts to destroy the section of the Suakim-Berber Railway already oonttruotod, and to out telegraph lines wherever they can. Evory night Xl Mahdi's men fire upon and into British posts., Tho garrison of Senaat dofeatod tho forobs of the Mahdi, whioh made an attack on that place on 27th April. Despatohes from Bu*kini dated 4th May say El Mahdi's men aro becoming more daring overy day. On tho ntyht of tho 3rd they surrounded Dambouk and Otao, and kept up a hoayjr fire on both placet all night. Firing, however, was from too long a range to be effeotive. Despatches of the 6th mention Lord Wolaeley's indisposition. Osman Digna is again collecting an army, but owing to the soarolty of food at his oommand, he cannot become sufficiently formidable to , oall for a British expodition against him. Tbe Tokar Arabs ask English protection _against Osman, and almost all tbe other tribes are willing to submit if the English will promise to remain in tho country, and proteot thorn from the vongoanoe of Osman Digna. Goneral WoUeley, in reviewing the oamol corps at Suakim on Bth May, nrged the men to perfect themtoWos in their novel duties, as they wonld be wanted on the Nile in antumn. The speech was significant as indioating that the Gonoral is not in favour of the Government polioy of abandoning the Hondan. THE ST. LOUIS MURDER CASE. PARTICULARS OF THE CRIME FOR WHIOH MAXWELL 18 IN CUSTODY. Tho headless body of an English gentleman, registered as O. Arthur Preller, London, England, was found in a trunk in a St. Lonis hotel on the 13th April. When the trunk was openod the body of a middle-aged man was dicoloiod, the face and breast up, and the body so donbled abont tho hips and knees that ft filled the rooeptaole. On tho side of the trunk over the head of tho oorpse were printed in large letters tho words, " So perish all traitors to tho great cause." The body presented a horrible aspect, and wis in an advanced stago of decomposition. The personal effoots in tho murdered man's trunks indicate that the owner was a gentleman of means and culture. His room mate, Walter Lennox Maxwell, who it accused of the murder, is also an Englishman, being a son of Farnham Maxwell, residing on an estate at Drummill, in England. He has disappeared, and the only olne the deteotivos have is that he loft San trranois'oo disguisod on the steamer City of Sydney. The whole case is involved in obsourity. Preller, the murdered man, was a member of an English scot oallod the Plymonth Brethren, and of a temperament strongly religions. Tbe latest telegrams stato that Maxwell has been arrested at Auckland, and the necessary papers for his extradition will go forward by the Australia.