THE SOUDAN.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXIX, Issue 9156, 28 September 1898, Page 4

THE SOUDAN.

iFashoda Garrisoned by i the Britisli^

, Prow Association—Rlectiio Telegiaph-Copyrigl I London, September 26. The at Oai telegraphs that Sir H. Kitchener, hi peacefully garrisoned Fashoda" at Sobat. J The. Cairo authorities are silei regarding the present of the whil strangers at Fashoda,: ••' There /are no) Abyssinian troops, i the Upper Nile, region. ■; The Daily, Telegraph's correspondei says the Sirdar found the Frenoh c Fashoda and.notified Marchandthn pie territory was British and that h must remove ;, •••'' ' ) ' i Hβ then hoisted the British an< Egyptian colours, leaving two Soudan β^a; battalions and 100 men ofthi Cameron Highlanders to protect thi Union Japkl .-.- ;; , . ; ! The French are awaiting inetru'otioni from Parie ? as the question isregardec as'onefor settlement by diplomady, ' ■K Lieut.'Oolonel Parsons, Governor oi pssala, ,has ocoupied the lasfc-Deirish stronghold, -j , khs I [ Thirteen hundred and defeated 3000 Dervishes/killing 500, inoluding Emir Abdul Fedal, the cousin of the Khalifa. \ : -i;. v '.. I No British' officers were injured.' j The Khalifa ia fleeing ito Taaisha, and it is still : expected he will be capture^..;. '■' ; ' , :,. .'.... .; The nephew of General Gordon, who is accompanying the British forces, exploded the tomb of the Mahdi with a shell at Omdurman r and destroyed his body. I In'reply-.-to.-.the congratulations of the Lord.'Maypii' 'of London upon his viotories, Sir P. Kitchener has tele. graphed his hope of opening up these extensive countries for the benefit of ; the-_city • of London and British com* meroe generally, . i i"Taaißha" is probably mtant for IWaisha (rusaha , , which is loca'ed in pastern Darfur, about 120 milea south-east 6jE ElFasher, with which it is connocted by desert route. Tawaisha is situated übonfc4somiles : Rou!h«Beßt of Omdurman,. whwh would eeem to be rather a hog distance for the Kbalifa to flee, The only other spot which may be meant is Taiarra, cloeetoHObeid.

'Kasaala, whiohwae ceded to Brifaia by Italy, js an important position situated olose to the Abyssinian eastern bound&iy. It is connected by' trade route; with the Red Sea port Suakim, whioh is ■ about 250 miles distant. Kaesala is on the Khor-el-Gash tributary of the great Atbara 5 river, and ia" situated in a Straight : line east of Omdutinan. >•'•■■>'' t •■':.-. ...■•'•( .:.* ■■ ■;■ ■ !Kedaref. described' as the last 'Dervish sttonehokV is 120 ' miles > south-west' of K.assak.'lt'wae theKhalifa'smain outpost on the Abyeainian'sideV -■ '' : •' 'Faahoda the White. Nile 400 milee south Of Omdurmanv almost exactly oiltbt»j lOtfi parallel;' -.:'-• ' ':'■'■ : -'■■"' ' : ;Sobat«is- t some / eoventy,' mile« .than Fftehpda.'near tho niDuence.of the Sobat; Bahr-el-Ghaital, Bahr--and Bahriel'Seraf. etroams; Both' are importanVpositiqhai'iankiug , ; Hfter Khar? turn as keys tu the higher Nile valley.] '