THE REBELLION IN THE SOUDAN.
(Reot2r's Telegrams.) Cairo, March 25. The latest dispatches from Souakim Btate that General Graham has Btarted with hi» staff for Tamaneh with the objoct of forming plans for projected operations in thnt quarter against the rebels under Osman Digma. ■ Telegrams from Souakim state that tae I>iiiif.h troopij have advanced against Osman JJigmas camp. It is, however, rumoured that the rebel sheikh has fled with bis followers to the mountains, where pursuit will be a matter of very great difficulty. T _ Loxdon, March- 25. -: In the House of Commons to-day Lord Edmund lutzmaurice, Foreign Under-secre-tary, in reply to an inquiry on tho subject of the intended movement of British troops from Souakim to Tarnaneh, stated that General Gn\ham's object wag to disperse the robelswho are .still in the neigh bourh> od of Souakim, and to open the road from that place to Berber, through the districts occupied by "friendly i tribes. , \ {Special to Pbess Association.) ' • ' London, March 26: General Graham's column is sufferiug greatly from'the intense heat in Egypt* and many soldiers have been stricken down with sunstroke. It has been ascertained that Osman Digma's camp is situated 25 miles from Souakim, and that it is very, difficult to approach. , ,
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Otago Witness, Issue 1688, 29 March 1884, Page 18
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204THE REBELLION IN THE SOUDAN. Otago Witness, Issue 1688, 29 March 1884, Page 18
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