REBELS SUFFER HEAVILY.
TEN BRITISH SOLDIERS KILLED. (Press^Assoeialion.) London, November 80. Official details of the mutiny show that the mutineers were intercepted near the hospital by platoons of the Argyll and Sutherland Regiments, after which the Acting-Sirdar called on them to return to duty. They refused, and after they had been given every oportunity to surrender, lire was opened on them. The mutineers replied with rilie and machine-gun fire. They then withdrew under cover of darkness. On Friday morning it was found necessary to bombard and demolish the building in which the main body of the mutinous troops was located. The survivors surrendered. The mutineers suffered heavily. Other units were not affected. The latest official reports from the Sudan state that the situation at Khartoum is well in hand. They confirm the statement that the mutiny was confined to two platoons of the Eleventh Sudanese Battalion, the survivors of which surrendered after the bombardment of the compound at the Egyptian Army Hospital. Two British officers were killed and eight men wounded in the course of the fighting.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XIX, Issue 2050, 2 December 1924, Page 5
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177REBELS SUFFER HEAVILY. King Country Chronicle, Volume XIX, Issue 2050, 2 December 1924, Page 5
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