The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-03-31 00:00:00

=gaspAT's AS7ACK ON.THI OUNyOT.

Th • Carespondrat tI tikv Standard send. the following
.1 1.. s 11 the attack which woo med. on Thursday upon
th On., convoy :—lt was escorted by the Grine& r
the 7011, she Sikhs. the 28th Native Infantry,
. the 53rd. Ther marched out in moue formatim, the
U,.. Is bolos in the front face of the ieoare, the 70th on
U., 'gat flank, lb • 53-d on Melon, wilds the two lodim
r• ,iinvuta oomplvted the genke, and f.•rimk I Um rear of
the sip, win Tee falth Human corned the advance. The
Ivc woo under the command of General Graham Wm
▪ When three mitre from the mom the enemy were
mei. 6 rumble towards us throutti the bush. 8 ,rar, of
it. puttee approached to within lbte or lour hundred
yar.i.,if lb. square, and then (menet a hea•ti dr• upda
t .air bulata, as usual, going high above our Maeda.
To • ir iogos firsat volleys In return. and the eosin, fell
hivk romewhat, and when we had Lone a little further
• small group of Arabk charged demerately down ou the
frost face of the matte A rolior volley from Vl*
Grmadlere Mocked their sivanc.. 19 of them, among
whom wire four boys and a women, telling In a group.
It was an exueordiniary sight to me this handful of
Arabs rushing down to certain destination. apparentry
mad with tn.:item...at and fansUalsna, sod without a hope
of victory, but inspired only with a dein, to die fight-
ing. The majority hung back, and evidently shrank frvre
soaking to glom *genets with the terrible line of Ore
round our moire. For half an hour th• aquaria oorttlnued
to fire volleys whenovre the natives almered in kr,* In
the bush..: at the end of that time the Arabs fell back
altogether, their retreat being haaten*l by some shells
from the battery, which was signalled to 000111 out
front the samba to meet the coining. The euerny's loos is
estieneted at fro a one to two hundred; on oar std. there
▪ only three wounded, one by an Arab who had been
wounded as he obargol the square He shimmed death
and lay perfectly rigid till the front km of the "pare
marched over his body. then he rose on his elbow. and
'peered one of the Grenadien in the leg- lite heat Is
beginning to inoreese seriously. The plessantese butes at
what'll, even in the middle of the de,. teropered the
fore* of the sun, are daily dying allay. There were
emend eases of sunstroke on the march and among the
troops at the samba. It la (*novelly believed that the
edemas erill take place in a 417 or two, and odintra and
MS are longing intentely for the movement, and for •
relief from tie monotonous but hooey °envoy work.
The tilliculty, however, is to store oullicient water and
rattan to the rushes foe the next edemas, and this
dillanlty has been greatly increased by the heavy Immo
of tramper-I missals in Binder's and Tuesday's lighting.
The stanch at the sending la still terrible. A serious
diffloalty hae comurred with the local labourers employed
by the Transport and Contraimarlat, their having struck
in a body for higher wseu. Whether the movement Is
the remit of outside .mlmarta. or Is simply • strike for
my is not yet known.

THE AUSTRALIAN TROOPS FOR THE SOUDAN.
MOIDAT.
Laid Wolseley. on Ma arrival at Chaim for which place
he started to-dley front anemia will proceed to Seahlm.
to euperintend the operations then.
The reatiagent from New South Weise leaded at
Suakin on Sands), afternoon. la good !math and spiritu
The British regiments cheered tie Aestrallane estimable.
Goal,. General Graham ooegrateloted thus on their
•PPOWSIIOI., and a:peered hie pride at having week •
force ..der hie command.
Otman Digna la reported to have moved his forties to
Ternaniob. A serious rising 'phut the Kale& hoe
occurred at Kordofan.
OCIIZIAL RULL/1.11 WITHDIiWAL ISOM GOOBAT TO

QAILD
Friday algitt's Gagers cantatas • &spate& float Lord
Wolseley, dead March Ist, to the Secretary of 8 tote for
Wer, erolosing two dispatch.. from Sir &Avers Boller.
The lett -r gave aa account of the attack of the emus, on
General Butler's oamp at Abs Klee on Um 161 h and Mit
of February. and also of hie march to °Adel. lend
Wolereley says :—The meaner in whkh the movement
Ira,, Gonbet to flakdcl has been carried out reflects the
greater{ credit upon General Boller a. • leader sad upon
all realm under him. Every retrograde step I. reeorded
by Itacdvilmed nose se a siga of weakness and of fear,
sad to withdre• troops in the face of a mesa =MY is
neither an may nor • grateful tea. Sir Redeem Boller
haa, however, dose this with little km, and in • way
which has won Ma the confidence, of all who wird sada(
kis

"AU. oceorredi on Wedseeder
we awl, brick sad W. works of Kr. A.rolow. Goalrille.
mese lAlasstirt by which on. man -ea klllad and greet
deetroettoso propsot? moved. The buildings wore
partially dam • alumna, stack wee blown down.
sad the boiler plasm were thrown • ooadderable dMtanoe.
Sitheequestty the deaf body of • workman named Lager
was found In the &iris. &medially moillabed.
awn ol ibmorplosion lo askaows.