THE SOUDAN CAMPAIGN.
.London, June 9. The Standard's correspondent; saya that the Soudanese troops appropriated the women who were taken prisoners after the fight at Ferkeh. The Dervishes' camp with great quantities of supplies was captured. Oaiko, June 10. The Khalifa lost the best of his fighting men and thirty emirs at Ferkeh. The Sirdar has sent infantry to hold Suarda. The enemy's grain boats were captured, and all tho Dervishes north of Suarda were killed or captured. Egyptian forces hold the Nile valley to that point. The deoision of the Mixed Tribunal respecting the advance of half a million by Uie Caisse de la Dette has been appealed against.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7653, 11 June 1896, Page 2
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110THE SOUDAN CAMPAIGN. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7653, 11 June 1896, Page 2
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