THE SOUDAN EXPEDITION.

Otago Witness, Issue 2199, 23 April 1896, Page 15

THE SOUDAN EXPEDITION.

__♦ - London, April 15. The Porte protested against Mussulmans fighting their co-religionists without consulting the Caliph. The Cairo authorities, replied that the dervishes against whom the expedition was direoted were heretics, and there could be no infringement of the Sultan's firman, sinoo its object was to reconquer Egyptian territory. Upon this the Sultan gave way, and acquiesced in the views of tha Egyptian Government Three armoured steamers will be sent up the Nile in June to Ferkeb, midway between the second and third cataracts Cairo. April 16. The friendly Arabs are rapidly being disciplined. The supervision of 'the whole of tha eastern bank of the Nile has been entrusted to them. Five friendly tribes in the vicinity of Wady Haifa will patrol both sides of the Nile. April 17 The friendly natives at Tokar defeated Oamaa 'Digna, and killed 80 of bis force; their own loss being only nine. Major Sidney routed 300 of the dervishes' cavalry and 100 of their infantry at Tokat." Colonel Fenwick'e Egyptian Cavalry routed a second attack, killing 30 of th«, enemy. April IS Osman Digna is retiring to Adarama. Paris, April 15. The Government have decided to reinforce all the French frontier ports in Africa, fearing the spread of dervish fanaticism. Herbert Spencer defines evolution as a change from as indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity by various integrations and differentiations. - We don't know about that, but we are certain about the evolution of the wonderful new Wafcerbury Watch called " Ik* Xnu&B." Obtainable Qrerjffhejni