The Soudan Campaign.

Feilding Star, Volume XX, Issue 62, 12 September 1898, Page 2

The Soudan Campaign.

THE KHALIFA'S STEAMER SUR. RENDERS TO KITCHENER. FIRED ON BY WHITES. ONE SHELL KILLS 106 PEOPLE. Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright Cairo, September 10. Tbe Khalifa's steamer was sent to Fashoda but returned, and surrendered to Kitchener. The commander reports that the whites at Fashoda fired on the vessel, nearly destroying her, and killing many aboard. It is believed that the bullets found in the hull are French, and that the vessel was attacked by one of the French expeditions known to be making towards Fashoda. Neufeld, the German trader, so long a prisoner at Omdurman, relates tbat one of the Lyndite shells fired by the British burst in the mosque, killing 106 out of 112 people in the building at the time. General Kitchener urges tho endowment of a Gordon College at Khartoum for the purpose of educating the Sheiks' sons. September 11. General Kitchener will not permit newspaper correspondents to proceed to Fashoda and ordered them to return to Cairo immediately. Most of the British troops are returning hastily to Cairo from the front owing to the prevalence of sickness in the ranks. Ten deaths have already been recorded. Later. Lieut. Harrington, British Agent in Abyssinia has started from Zeilato to inform King Menelik of the result of the battle of Omdurman. The Khalifa's principal wife has bee» captured.