THE BRITISH IN THE SOUDAN.
Success of the Troops.
700 Dervishes Routed.
(By Electric Telegraph— Copyright.) (Per United Press Association.) (Received March 31, at 10.15 a.m.) Zanziihr, March 30. Captain Harrison's force overtook the Soudanese escapees at Labwas. They captured the stockade after severe fighting. The British lost ten and tho Soudanese sixty. Cairo, March 30. The Bcitish gunboats have captured Shendy, a Dervish stronghold on the Nile opposite Metemmeh. Seven hundred Dervishes assembled in front of Shendy. Three British gunboats shelled them, while the Egyptian forces out-flanked the enemy, who fled. They were pursued for twenty miles, 100 were killed, the forts destroyed, and a large quantity of grain, stores, and ammunition was captured. Six hundred slaves were also captured.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9402, 31 March 1898, Page 2
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121THE BRITISH IN THE SOUDAN. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9402, 31 March 1898, Page 2
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