The-Soudan.
DECISIVE' BRITISH VICTORY.
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LONDON.Ncm 25.
An official report from Major Win--gate, director of the. Military .Intelligence 'IJepartment of the Egyptian army, states that a'decisive victory was won over the dervishes at Gedid, on.the Blue Nile, south of Khartoum. The Khalifa was killed. '
Later reports say that the dervishes were defeated after a sharp
fight. , ;.■ \, .;.,..?. r( ....■' All the Khalifa's bodyguard and principal emirs were killed or captured. ....... ■-..,..
Osman Digna escaped,
Thousands' / surrendered,; and'; the enemy's camp was taken. /"!•_",
Three Egyptian Boldiers were killed and 12 wounded. . -
The Soudan has been declared open to trade. ; :
CAIRO, Nov. 26,
. The Khalifa's two brothers, the Mahdi's son and Ahmed Fedil, the Khalifa's cousin, and his leading general,- were killed at Gedid. . v
Osman Digna fled-after the first shot.
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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXIX, Issue 9497, 28 November 1899, Page 2
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