FATHER DETAILS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 18, 19 December 1883, Page 2

FATHER DETAILS.

Cairo, November 28. The battle was fought near El Obeid. El Mahdi first sent .dervishes declaring they would • vanquish ■ the > enemy" by : divine-" aid; > Hicks < Pasha had ; divided hi* army, and a&ntjialf tdflSfcObied to • demand the surrender of that place. He awaited the arrival of El Mahdi, who, however, met half of Hicks Pasha's, army. advancing! -lo 1 El -bbietVario 1 attacked it. Heavkrg -firing, Hicks Pasha caahe <itp wiihlliiaSwhole force r- »nd dPoriaed; I a ! Jbdlioiv I El • Mahdi bi'6'ugb.t np» fresh regulJii's, wlio, it is= supposed, - were; soldiets -captui-ed \ynen EL Gbied fell, «nd wholagreed-tti (fake service under Mahdi/ 'I3iese' numbered 3000^, The of Hicks v P«fsba's.ariny was then' Broten, and his nryiy was annihilated. , The ofncers with the Egyptian array ifought gall'antlr. An Englishman r who escaped is though to be O'-Donovan or Frank Vezetely, of the London Graphicl Hicks Pasba liad 1000 soldiers a^d". 2000 camp folio wei'S..' The^Axabs iiuuibered 20,000. .' Anotnei, report of the fight says that El Ma;|idi sent dervishes , to . treat' : with ; Sicks J Pasha's officers, saving to the Egyptians, "We. like yob, are Musselraans. Why fight ? Surrender." The I dirvinhes were re- . ceijved by a volleypind then the battle ■ commenced^ .-,_■; (\ -„ '"'• .-.; -a ;u ';^\i \ LondgJli,' November 22. The official accounts states that the force under Hicks 1 Pasha aggregated 10>500 men.: -■•£■•> ; '•• ' L J ' ! , It is believed that the correspondent of the i Graphic has been -killed!' ' : '. " l Jsmail Pasha, ex Khedive of Egp^yt, attributes the defeat of Hicfe 1 Pasha to the disorganisation- of Ms forces. <; Th» Egyptian soldiers needed more than othetf soldiers — a flag, military l music, an|l all the eclat of warpvitbout which 'they coti'ltl itlbt atid^ouldTiot figh^^Phe 1 army included iAjrabi Pasha's meA^ wHb had been sent out like malefactors. How could Flicks Pasha %Ht '■> with 'suetmaterial. The ex Khedive; •was 4 iio€ ! surprised 1 : at tbie' calamity/ 'He would ! not advise the sending of English tro6ps to 'Soudrtn, 1 a's'such h, 'dourse^ might &uc& more evils. ■" *' ; V 1 • • •<( -' * The last letter from Q'Donovan, the ' Nejtvs coirespondent, was sent from Duem, thirty tniles 1 southward I ' -!from Khartoum, and Announced 1 that the army had abandoned itieir base of opsrations and practically burnt their ships.

.: Marquis of Salisbury, speaking ;ftt a^Tmnquet o f the Carlton Club, said' tlti defeat of Hicks Pasha must epd^all thoughts of withdrawal of British troops irom Egypt. French papers express the opinion that the disaster will lead to the permanent English occupation of Egypt, New York, November 22. Notwithstanding the reports as to . Afe c numhejLengagpri m tbe^^atti^rrthe **ar correspondents of ,*he English papora hove written* that/ on the Bth kePtaaber Hicka-Paaha -mawheA out of Khartoum with 7000 regular iufantry and 400 cavalary, of which 100 were cuirassiers, and the remainder Ba^i Bazouke, one battery of Krapp guß^ ( tYp)battftri9Sf of *Mpun*»io-srans, an<l pne iTJardeqfeJfc battery- I aii JBeiair and Duen, en route to Obeid. Hicks Pasha -was to be, iremforge^ wjjfr IGOO regular infantry and 1000 additional Bashi Ba?puks, making his total command onl^ about 'lo,ooo. After leaving the Nile, en route to El Obied, some eight posts were to be established to keep up a line of. communication, which vgtn&t require] a; ; tqtal dfetefc of nearly 3000 meu, leaving 7000 available forces; of a# jjto mset ,2Q#OO men reported to be under El Mahdi. The prominent aheik^^er^l^ahdi, m September, claimed that his forces numbered 20,000 ; /thai they had Remington'guns and rockeira which they had taken from the Turks, but that El Mahdi liad4 f; forbidden,, fi iheir use, only spears and swords to be used by the fighting men. | CfeW Cettogen, who was 1 *ith Hicks Pasha, has telegraphed from Ohartoum to General Sir Evelyn Wood j confirming the previous reports of the | disaster to Hicks Pasha's army. He ; says that the whole of the country has risen. The Government has "asked Baker Pasha , to aend 1000 gendarmes to Sonakim toTielp-fp clear the desert; bat he.ifet«Bedo.totjesdi^thgnj. -ttitnkmg they were required -m Upper Egypt. lit ig 'riMtewkkWrkfy afias -olfe& [| to aeA4 .20,000, tropDß to re escabiish Jutenge excitement- prevails everjwhera m tigypW-m> ttfe^bouniiry^nfioi '^AiT above .the. second cjWaraqt of the NilaJ| iThiS'KheWivil'ha.s]ofaered4ne 'etacaaJM of the militrt ! ry'pDets i: 6ti I tlie j^^H and the White. N|le." The troops Ir^|F • the posts on the former : mer^l- be L imasaed at Sennaar~aad those from the 1 posts onvthie latfe^abtKbaplonm. 4 The principal offieeiiaSat I®hartpnaL[{hay(eT : been -ordered, to consult i ani adon« fensive; meabhresw Ii necesiarf, SHifc^ jnaar will be .labandoqed land troops : massed (jftC HMrJputn; i :^U re^tgniseT i the necesssty x>i re-opening: thtfirpgid .ba-fw tween > Soaakint andjßerberx, iQt&&&< have been seutijjJihejßeitish; Admiral ,on the- East -Indian; jtq. 6>ippjort jSgyptian interests,^The ' Bled Sea JstyWfrou i-vJlsiJlf de" reinforced[i)y[fjjqtt«sibflata^lroni the; Mediterrajieaii,