More Fighting in the Soudan
DE ISLVE BRITISH VICTORY. THE KHALIFA REPORTED KILLED. ALL THE PRINCIPAL EMIRS KILLED OR CAPTURED. THOUSANDS SURRENDER. THE SOUDAN DECLARED OPEN FOR TRADE. Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright London, November 24 An official reporb states that General Wingate, director of tbe military intelligence of the Egyptian Avmy, obtained a decisive victory over the Dervishes at Gedid, on the Blue Nile, south of Khartoum, and that the Khalifa was killed. Later report says that the Dervishes were defeated after a sharp fight. All the Khalifa's body guard and princi pal Emirs were killed o>- captured. Ostuan Digna escaped. Thousands surrendered. The enemy's camp waa taken. Throe Egyptian soldiers were killed and 12 wounded. The Soudan has bean declared open for tradt 1 . Cairo, Novembar 28. The Khalifa's two brothers, the Mahdi's son, and Ahmed Fedil, the Khalifa's cousin, and his leading General, were killed at Gedid. Osman Digna fled at the first shot.
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Feilding Star, Volume XXI, Issue 126, 27 November 1899, Page 2
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