NEWS FROM SOUAKIM.
A Crushing DefeatEl Mahdi Again Victorious. His Success Causing Dismay* (by jslectbio telegraph— copyright.) (REUTER's TELEGRAMB.) Cairo, December 9. Further intelligence is to hand from Souakiiu shows that the recent destruction of troops by the Arabs is a more serious disaster than was at first anticipated. It now appears that seven hundred Egyptian troops were killed, and that these comprised the pick of the force sent to occupy Sonakira and operate against the Soudan rebels. Dismay prevails here at the continuous success which the pattizans of El Mahni meet; m their conflicts with the troops despatched against theni. -'' . i.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 11, 11 December 1883, Page 2
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