THE SOUDAN REBELLION.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1682, 30 March 1885, Page 2

THE SOUDAN REBELLION.

ZEIiEHR CONVEYED TO Gilt it YL t'.\U. 1 THE NEW SOUTH WALES CONTINGENT A f ADEN. WOMEN IN THE ARAL RANICS. Ai.kxanm.ia, Maich 2b Zcbehr and his son and toe other three prisoners, arrested on suspicion of hiving been in illegal communication with Ih ■ Mahdi, ate being cuuvejtd to Gihiailar ty H.M.S. Iris. Adkn, March - 1. The transport Iberia, with the New South Wales contingent for the Soudan, anived here at noon to-day. London, March 25. The Arabs keep up an incessant attack on the convoys in the neighborhood ol Suakim. Their losses are heavy, and include a number of women. Lieutenant A. E. Muchaot, of the Rival Marinis, was wounded in the by, but not seveitly, during tbe attack made by the rebels on the convoy at Suakim. Si'akim, March 20. The hostile Arabs made au attack to-day on a convoy which was proceeding to the zareba which had been formed on the road to Tamai. The attack was npuised by the British troops, the enemy losing 1 oil uu-o tiie only casualties on the Eoglisti side being three wounded. A genera! advance cf the whole force is ex peeled to take place during the next thn-e days.