THE SOUDAN WAR.
• fc)nr»: :.. - -.I. 1 .". ■- :M-A-i,\ ■!.- <!: »:: , , " . • i ; ; . : ,-., Later ; News of the Battle. i :.y3,Y EI.ECTBIO TKLgGEii^[.-CD^r^I(JB[T) Latest telegram.-; to hand from Sotiakjm report that: iQsm^u.'J^jgneh, with thfciisejnnfcn.t of h is.-ijfcjl.lowers, has retreated to the hills m-ar Tamuneb; : ! •Jfehj&s i been, : dg& nite]^ prosed jtbjit m the recent batile the^fcehel&fttuffej-ed more-lieaxily than, .was at first.su pposed . Their) loss -in killed alone, is now/ set clown at fully 4300, and 'the wounded exceed that number. The whole of the J-Briiisli 'troops^ tkgagefl m tlie^baltle near Tamaueb are now returninfu-to ' Souafeim'. " ; Mujo^GerieVal.GfahainJ t^legraphsM -fiomt ! Souakini) thatJ.ffliiek Mahomed, a^jconiinggt) Arab chief of' Eastern r r^qudan, ( , v has ; expressed his belief that tho recent victory of the British vyill have, the effect, of pacifying the road to Ber Her will now be open. ; ' ;?1> '' .Rondos? Marcfr to/ The TifetbHanitfhiJioa^ Cfiilders is at .Softiikinij and, hiajTnot. itnprobabfy. Me a efiiploved for sonic time iis'a^'ileshaich boat. , Major-General G-raham's force has re&ii riled to : Soiialri m after HhirMn^Four villages and ek^plodiri'g' Vast stoics of captured .ammunition.. Tjie bodies of fifteen hlifidi^ed Araißs found at /the spot where the square under Colonel 1 Davis; 'was/broken;' T?He total ; JBriHsh loss inkaMpVb^es' : to i 4)e'420 J of which f; number the Goth-Kegiment lost thirty, 'iihdi' lie 'Black Watch sixty-fire/^ in-' eluding ten sergeants. j. — i a
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 95, 18 March 1884, Page 2
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216THE SOUDAN WAR. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 95, 18 March 1884, Page 2
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