SOUDAN WAR.

Woodville Examiner, Volume 2, Issue 156, 24 March 1885, Page 2

SOUDAN WAR.

j Reuter's Telegrams.—Copv right.] A HEAVY BATTLE. Suakim. March 20. Later intelligence lias come in that the force which left here at daylight | for Hasliau came up with the rebels | under Osman Digneh, and a severe I engagement ensued. The lighting j lasted fully five hours, and resulted in j the complete defeat of the rebels, who j were driven from all positions with heavy loss in killed and wounded. March 21. Accounts to hand of the battle which took place yesterday in the neighborhood of Ha sheen with the rebels under Osman Digueh, in which the British were victorious at all points, give the latter's loss as 20 killed and -14 wounded. ATTACKING THE ENEMY. Londo.v, March 21, General Graham telegraphs to the War Office from Suakim that he yesterday cleared the hills around liassen of the rebels, after severe fighting. The enemy numbered four thousand , and suffered heavy loss. After the battle they retired to Tamai. General Graham further states a aareba has been formed at llassen with the Surrey Regiment and a battery of artillery with six guns as a garrison. The remainder of the troops returned to camp. March 22. A considerable force under the command of Major-General McNeil started from this place this morning, into the square, and proceeded in the j direction of Tamai. When they ar- ! rive there they will construct Zarcbas. and the Berkshire regiment will remain to garrison the position, the rest of the force returning to camp. Later. News has since boon received that a large body of rebels left Osman Digna’s head quarters with the intention of intercepting McNeill s force, but their movements being observed from the British Zareba at llasheeu, a heavy cannonade was opened upon them with the result that their advance was checked a large number killed and wounded. March 2!h Further intelligence is to hand from Suakim respecting the engagement between the rebels and the British troops under Major-General McNeill at Zareba on the road to Tamai. It stated the British loss was not so great as at first reported. The British casualties are now set down at two officers and twenty-four rank and file killed and 83 wounded. Beceived March 28. 11 p.m. THE ENEMY BOLTED. Bentor's Special Correspondent with Graham's army telegraphs from Souakim, under date, midnight 22nd, that the British troops under command of Major-General McNeill have formed a Zareba at a point about six miles along the road to Tamai. The position had only been occupied a short time when it was attacked by a huge force of Arabs numbering lolly lour thousand, who made a violent onslaught on the Zareba. The fighting was of a moM desperate character and lasted about twenty minutes, after which time tin* enemy were repulsed with a loss estimated at over a thousand. The British casualties an 1 given as five officers ami fifty-one rank and tile killed, and a hundred and .seventy wound d.