THE SOUDAN.
Cairo, November 30.
It is stated that two influential sheiks, with 250 fighting men, have deserted from Osmau Digna and joined Sir Herbert Kitchener's force. The emirs (or chiefs) at Khartoum are preventing the flight of the Khalifa frem the town.
December 1.
Later news from the Soudan states that the Khalifa is massacring Christian prisoners in Otndurman and Khartoum.
December 5,
The editor of the Egyptian native journal Saika has been sentenced to 20 months' imprisonment for expressing the hope that the British flag would be hoisted over Egypt.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2284, 9 December 1897, Page 13
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