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GREAT BATTLE AND DIYRAT OF THE DERVISHES.
The lang-expected battle has been tought fa the Scuda, and the advanced force of the enemy has been irretrievably dispersed, leaving Ibe sy open to Ondarman, except for the d ficelles of transport.
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was not last. They shambled away, receiving frightful punishment.
INCIDENTS OF THE TIGHT.'
There were many narrow escapes. The par- rawest, perhaps, was that of a man who, noticing a brass box inside the zaziba, pocketed it, think. log it would be useful as a matchbox. The next instant a ballet struck it and was turned aside. A corp ral of the Seafaribe received seven bolists in his clothing, oun switchbacking in On April 6 Sir. H. Kitchoser moved his camp and out the front of his tunic, while he was few miles ara es the Dervishes, and the next not touched. Fiper M'Kensle had six bullet evening began bis advance across the desert marks, but is practically unwounded. Sted-Str. taking up position for battle about 1,000 yards grant Mackay, of the Seaforth Highlanders, in from the Dervish camp. His force consisted of jumping the palisade escaped unscathed, al- fen batillons B.ish Infantry, with twelve bat- though he had a spear thrown at him, which Wyall tallag uitves (lx Soudanese and the rest passed through his kilt Staff-Surgeant Egyptian), with israty four guns and twelve who bore a big Union Jack in the contra of the Maxims. There were also seven squadrons of Camerons' linë, was shot severely in the knee One of General Gatacre's Exp lan cavalry, making up the total to about within the xaribs. 13000. The Davishes numbered 19,000 on orderlies took the flag and carried it to the river. their advance from Shendy, but this pun ber Tall Captain Findlay, who stood over alx fest aust bave been considerably reduced by deser-high, pressed on yards before bis company, o tn. They occupied a camp stretching along that his men had difficulty fa Ering to cover als the river delended by a zariba of thorn bushes froat. A Doilih pɔpped up and shat him with a parkade inside, and several lines of through the body. Mr. Budleigh was upon horseback near by, and saw all the Dervishet trenches, Ten guns were mounted
in the trench instantly dealt with. Capialn Urquhart, a little later on, was mortally hit lo the stomach. He cried to his men, "Never mind me, my lads; go on, F. Company" Capt. Urquhart received one bullet through the helmet, and another through the body, Colonel Verner, of the Llaceins, gat a nasty wazad in the upper lip in the second trench. An Emft, who, with a flag and spear, was standing op in citing his Dervishes, was gallantly rushed by Private Chalmers, of the Camerons, who killed the Emir and captured the Dervish basner,
It was broad daylight, weltes a correspondent, and the rising sua shore brightly when our bet. terles, established upon two or three sandy ridges, opened fire from the sight of our posillon, effectively taking the Dervish camp Even be fe the cannonade began most of the enemy within the ratiba bad aken cover, and thouars of the Dervish cavahy galloped out at the south end if the works, miklag for the extreme left of our polles. The artillery was supplied with nagniscent guns of the latest patterns and fuses, d daring the eighty Eve minutes o! "pacise," 1400 shelly, mostly shrapnel, were fred, The aiming and timing were perfect; conar quently. the postilos probably received the severest searching any military position ever received. To this formidable bombardment the enemy practically mada no response for fully half an bour; probably owing to the power of our guns,
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were chained together by the legs, and other go right through the marlba and drive the
both by arms and legs, while three others were Dervishes into the water.
held by forked sticks Exed round their necks, so that they could not desert. There were also found alz heads fixed on poles and one body found the body of one of our cavalrymen, who dreadfully mutilated Close to the xulhn was bad been missing slace General Hanter's recon alance. He had evidently been taken alive, as the hands, fant, and head had been cut off
favourlie dervlić practica.
When the bugles sounded the advance, the pipers of the Cameron Highlanders at once struck up"The March of the Cameron Men"} while, when their turn came, the English real. ments went in to a bugle march,
Piper Stewart, F. Company Cameron High. landers like all the pipers, blew brawly During a bit of rough and bloody work, he mounted a knoll, and stood plaing the "March of the Cameron Man," antil, pierced by seven bullets, he dropped dead. Piper Mackenz'e, of the Seniorths, was more fortunate. He was hit several times, hot his clothing was only cut.
Nothing could be finer, more striking, or more picturesque than the way the formidable barriers were surmounted in the face of a Gre from the Dervish teaches hotics and more continuous than anyibing the war correspondents have previously experienced..
Alborgh at first the courch was over a gravelly ridge, the formation maintained was perfect as i had been while marchlog along the valley. It was Inspliing to observe the care and coolders of the Cameron men, only filog when they www somethig to bit. Quickening their step as they descended the last fly yards of sloping ground, the Camerons reached the xtilba hedge nearly as seon, if not quite, as the other brigades.
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It's es imated that 3,000 of the enemy were kiled, 2,000 in the open and 1,000 in the bash, ́ind their are already 4000 prizones. Among those captured in the camp was 'Mabmond, the Dervish leader, who, after Inspecting his line of battle had retired to a place of safety, The dead bodies of ten Emire were found, including that of Wad Bishars, former Emir of Dongola. The cost of the victory was, however, boavy. Of the Egyptian force proper fly-one man were killed; elghteen ofera including four Bellsb, two Bilish noncommissioned officers, and 319, kok
and file were wounded;
RETURN TO-HERBER,
The Sirdar, accompanied by bir Staff and escorted by Brig-dier-General Macdonald's bri- gade, with five squadrons of cavalry, the horse setlilery, and the batterlee, arrived at Barber on Apill 13. Mahmoud, at the head of 2,000 Der. General Gatsore was first of the British brigada vish prisoners, was in the procession. The at the area redoubt, and he and bis Staff left whole town was decorated, and the natives gare their horses behind and advanced on foot. Gen. the Sirdar a mail enthusiastic reception Mab eral Gatacra seized a thorn-bush with his hands | mond created the greatest interest, an enormous and tried to drag it away, helped by braway | crowd sten gling to obtain a good wiệw ni him, Private Cross, of the Camerons, Captelo The wounded British officers, who are all pro- Ronald Brocke, aide-de-camp, and other off engrossing favourably, had left Atbarn by boat fer niso hauled at the bushes. A Dervish rushed | Gezentit. Neliber the British nor the Egyptian at General Gatacre, but the General stuck to | medical departments bare the apparatus for the poiling to the bush, contenting himself with Röntgen rays with them. Though ordered by shouting to Croar, *Give It to him, mỹ man 1" || tho Egypilsa hospitals, it did not arrive in sime. whereupon Cross hayeneted the enemy, The Most of the wounds were caused by bullets, and air was lashed with a perpetual twish of bullets, the medical officers agree that the Ronigen rays and many men fell, and these were shouts for the doctors; yet the Highlanders were as coal as on parade, ibels volleys being beautifully | timed. They advanced in Tue, dead level, the men dressing and aiming steadily without speaking,
The Camerons were, with Major Jackson and the rith Soudanese – who torn down the sulbi, on their sight-exposed to probably the hottest fire of all. Major Jackson's list of casualiles was 109, the longest of any batalion in the field. Both the fiting and the advance bad bean steady, fill suddenly the men, finding them- selves in the bare almost walking over the Karlbs, stopped for a moment in astonishment at their arriving there to quickly. In a moment a broad gap was made in the sariba, while at the same time others swarmed over the stiff stock. ade, behind which were four trenches, one behind the other. A lios of Highlanders planted their feet upon the erde of the palm tree batts and sprang across a trdoch,
would have been invaluable,”
Five thousand one hundred yards of railway line were fald on April 13, making the 10md mile.
CURIOUS ACCIDENT IN AN OSAKA DOCK.
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Thursday, 16th May, 1895. (St. Augustine.) Chinese-71h of $ik moon of #jik yaar 42
Kwong-tü. Jewish—6th Sivan, 5858. Mohammedin—jih Mukarram, 1316.
Sua-Rat
Skr. Băutu. Bår. 37min. Skr. Sämín.... Afternoon.....11år. $2mín. Low water-Morning $kr. 55min. Afternoon ........... 7kr, 35min.
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ANNIVERSARIKI.
1593-Fray Pedra Bautists, Spanish Eavoy,
left Manila for spac 1846-Hongkong Club opened. 1867-Duchess of York born. 1871-Bank Holiday Act passed. 1875-Mr. Blacklock murdered by Chinese mugglers on the s.s. Douglas at Foechow, 1276-Death of Graad Secretary Wen-slaug. 1894-Great fire at Yamagata, Japan; 1,203 houses burat and 13 lives lost 1896-Coronation of the Ciar, Nicholas II, ut
Moscow.
1897-The Russian Embassy by the Emperor
of China.
TO-MORROW,
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'A QUANTITY OF
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Sale of Crown Land by Public Auction, to be held on the spot, on
TUESDAY, the 31st day of May, 1898, at 3 P., Brd published for general information.
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Hongkong, 14th May, 1898,
Particulars and Conditions of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on Tuesday, the 31st day of May, 1898, at 3 P.M., by Order of His Excellency the Offiear Administering the Government, of One Lot of CROWN LAND, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 999
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Filday, 27th May, 1893. (Venerable Bede.) Chinese-8th of sth moon of tịch year of Years.
Kwong-til.
Jowlib-8ik Sivan, 5658.
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Afternoon Ohr. Ömin.. Low water-Morning umum bhr. Įmbn.
Afternoon ........ 8kr, $imin.. ANNIVERSARIES, 1831-The keys of the British factory at Canton handed to the Chinese constabulary by the East Jedi Co. 1841-Canton-ransomed for $6,000,000, 1848-Dasth of Princess Sophia, daughter of
George Ill. 1850-Attempted assassination of the Queen by
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1855-Capture of Kertch, 1860-Palermo captured by Garibaldi. 1879-General Grant arrived in Tientsin.
84-Loss of the is. Posang near Flaherman's
Group. 1897-Imperial Bank of Chinx opened at
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Australian (Tekis Maru) to-morrow. Indian (Arratoon Abcar) te-mORTOW, English (Chuzan) to-morrow,'
American (City of Rio de Janeiro) 28th Inst. Canadian (Emprèss of China) 31st inst, German (Sachim) fat prox. American (Grelle) 7th prox. Tacoma (Columbia) 11th prox.
THE P. & O, meamer Bombay lolt Slogapore for this port at 4 pm. yesterday, the agth fast..
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We should think there are few cases on record where a steamter has caprixed while in dock, but such sa accident occurred a few days ago în. Osaka. A correspondent writes to as fram that | Holstein werben at city : Goleg down the Ajikawa yesterday, Isidoro Pontynuac
noticed that one of the Shaana Kalska stes més, the Kamogawa-maru, was presenting a rather queer appearance: both masa had been sawed Closs to the deck and she was minor her funnel. She lay alongside the Iron Works, and upon la quiries I found that after having undergone though repairs to the dry dock there, the dock was flooded, whereupon the people present were Only about a minute elapsed from the time surprised at seeing the vessel turn tarile. This the combined forces crowned the vise till the wax only due to a slight oversight having been Camerons and Soodanese bed torn down the committed, that of replacing, her ballast after zariba and made way for the following regl. | balog'discharged it to allow of repairs being menis. The Lincolns and Seaforth Highlanders proceeded with. Such was the Caption ran in, cheering vociferously, and took ground the Kamogawa's shortened appearanca,Kobe
to the right and left, forcing the enemy back | Chronicle
ward vigorously. After the battle, the Sirdar,
In conversation with Colonial Money, refenleg
to the slow and steady advance of the Caméraos
to attacking the suziba under a withering fire, mid. was one of the Biest fents performed
for
* many years. You ought to be proud of such a regiment
Major General Honter and Brigadier-Geversin Kaxwall and Macdonald were the only mounted officers in the wheln fores during the attack. That so few officers were, wounded is due to the orders forbidding anybody except the above ridi Ing. The Dervlikes? aim was too high, and the execution among our man was not so great 18, from the interefly of the fire, was expected.
WITHIN THE ZARIEL N Probably the nastiest places were two long stockaded trenches in the zariba on the left of our front, whero, as 'it chanced, ike Camerons had torn wide openings, The Blacks hero siub- barnly refused to leave their sißn-pits, and re- alaed fring till they were shat point blank and bayoneted where they sat. In the tangle of pita, huis, and heaped bodies the men were able to get jammed or shot by their friends, bat, thanks to the captains, such danger was avoided. Mahe mond had a number of mines sunk in front of ». the plockaded tranches. These were formed of jurs filled with gunpowder, und lurga - monas, Their explosion casred neveral fatalities among our men, Among the wai material taken were fen brass cannona and several cléphant rider, manufactured at. Hasen and bearing dates anto- cedent to the dawn of Mabdiɔm ¡, these fired explosive bullets. The enemy'ą blacks waxe baiolc, and endured the deadliert fire, receiving and replying most spiritedly. The moment the Highlanders were over the siriba the Dervishes selred through the guy smoke, but their voterst
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But we're sorry for your fix, "Brillant Victory"- forsooth`t Bellant Bally fiddlesticks. All they could have done they did -- Less they couldn't well hiyo done. Liitin shame that you have n
Little honour that they von. Belter boats than you possessed ƒ Double your amount of tous. And--far worse than all the rest,
Longer range and bigger gunk. Nay the honour is to you—–
Badly beaten though you've been That you fought against such adds, As the world has seldom seen. Bounden hard and foot you fought Tilf your plucky flagelip saak. (Though the Yankees won themselves,
They've more than themselves to thank).
· Potted at a distancs át
Which your guns could not reply I'
Dons You showed the world you were
Man who knew the way to die,
We are glad the Yankees woo--. Ayo | but sony for the cost.. Bill, in Honour-Placky Dons,
Not one tittie, have you lost. Tilbate this of little worth i
YC a tdbute from the heart-i To the Deid-who, dying, played:
Mobly all their losing part,
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MITSUL BUSSAN KAISHA PM. TO-DAY,
No. 8, lie House Strast, Praya Central, Haid Oftes 1-TOXIO,
Branch Oficis zmi LONDON, NEW YORK, BOMBAY, SINGAPORE, SHANGHAI, TIENTSIN, NEWCHWANG and all Posts" is JAPAN.
Agencies -----
Milk Coal Miner, Okmar Coal Mines. Kanada Coal Mines.
Tokyo Marine Insurance Co., Limited, Hell Fire Insurance Co., Limited. Imperial Government Paper Mills, Japan, Cotton Cleaning and Whg. Co., Shanghai. Omoda Cement Company, Japan.
Kanegefacht Cotton Spinning Min Japan,
Goods not cleared by the gist lust, 1 4 PM. will be subject to rent,
No Fire Insurance will be affected by ma in any caso whatever,
All damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns and a certificate of the damage obtained from the Godowe Company within ten days alter the Vessel's arrival, here, after which
H.A RITCHIE, Do Claims will be recognized st
Superintendent, Flongkong, 25th May, 1808,"
Co be Leti
TO LET.
The Liike Cotton Spinning M, Lines COAL GODOWNS, PRAYA EASY,
Tekye Cotton Spinning Mill, Japan,
Hayashi Clock Factory,
Mangkong, 11th December, 1896.
1668 N°
NOTICE.
[OT. - RESPONSIBLE - FOR DEBTS,
"Neither the CAPTADOS, the ADRIEL, nơi tha
The GW TRANKE PASE RUZES, providing or KUHN & KOMOR, RESPONSIBLE BY
the sale of goods in rowle to inland: muskets,
· PRICE, 50 CIONES FER COFF.
"HONGKONG TELEGRAHP!
OFFICE.
No. 6, Falder's HRIS
JAPANESE FINe art curios, st & 23. QUEEN'S ROAD, HONGKONG,
35, WATER STREST, YOKOHAMA"
18, DIVISION MENERY, KORN, (mghong, 153h Marshy 18ple-
DEBT, contracted by the. Officers or macsbors.
GODOWN in BLUE BUILDINGS, FLOORS I STAUNTON and ELGIN
STREETS.
Apply to lamel
THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTME
& AGENCY Co., Lai, Hongkong, and May, 1898,
TO LET
ATHRÉE ROOMS on 2ND FLOOR NO. 5," of the Crews f the followins and Teen Road Central Suitable fo
OFFICES Rent Moderate,
dosie winy in Hongkong Harbor jeg m BUTUAN, Spanish #3, Madziago-Brindas &
Ikumuszenien, British ship, Lavor
Apply to
Mrs BUI BANG
Ford On the premises. / Hengkong, yth March, 18987