The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-02-17 00:00:00

MIN OF THE CAIIPAIO

tke .arch tovu-chtratanding tms to prevail In some
quartus cuncerning the probable CJ4IIIIO of the campaign
now to in the S,uJn, It may be well to
aieta the leading oullmes of Lord Wcalto' y's plan of
campaign.
L-trif W.,lsele• at present Is at Kg/U. His kg. column.
under (1 metal Bratakenbary, now en I. way La Abu
named. it the ant thorn elbow of the Nile. col ab.mt 100
aatitaa froo% Dirtier. which is i.e present ol.jeCtice of
out:

-1.-1.-d;:slliedvers Buller Le now at Gabe, and although
• ttlegrain was published on Kinder horn Katt, that
Ideunatneh eat t, be captured on it inday, it is p &Albin
Vat the attack has &road, bio n ibuliveral, and
It ...mouth, it Is believed, is now In our band,.
If General Gordon hal ban bclievott t be still holding
out in Kbart On., WI attempt woold bare been made
(torn klatarnmeh a a base to op n up conimunicatons
with the beleaguer, d genersl. As however, life heid
that thire Ls no doubt 44 to the authenticity of the egg
of his death. Kb irtouas vittli not be I gime iiat-Ist attacks!,
lost, al of ad•acing from Metemmob Ii Khattouns,
fieseial B drutrii Bolls-, leaving • a'r nig punt nut
Metimmoh, will much down tit, river towards Ber-
ber. lions which he I. &boot the earne Abilene, as
•(instil Brackenbury, Lord Wolisbuy'e idea being to
cone 'citrate the bulk of his forte at Berber, which
will be simultaneously at linked from the north and
a 'tn.
Whse Berber is c ipt :IA he bulk of the army will
'and the simmer Gerd piniling the opening up of the
B•rherillakim route. by which it can arta in cue. the
Cabinet changes its mind. or aan he reinforced it the ad-
vocates of retirement fail to carry the day.
When Bwber Is taken, the route across t•-• Barnda
dean will Is' abandonerl, Gakilnl being possibly held as
an advanced pet from K 'it.
Metaosuish Will probobly be held, and commuute•tiog
matotairtud between B,rber and hlttamineh by Gordon's
two survivi g etseme-e, oeamsl Wolgtley for the
present remains at it St. whom bean be In tom dints
coninmairatlin 11,101 the (a 'ailment at home.
The fora bring hurried out to Suaklos writ he probsidY
not ad vat cod very fa on the B rim., ri ad. Its work wit
be aceounplished when Orman Dana has been 'mulled
and the road to Berber opened, But the majority of the
troopecompoeing the expedition will ratan% after Ocean
Digda be. been di wand of, nor will any attempt be
rands to push the Guards through to Berber in the sew wit.
The railway from Suakin' to Berber wlll be pushed
forward as rapidly as possible, the rails being laid down under the pr 'section of Indian tram
A ..,ry widespread leeling trists in favour of inakint
a last effort to anoints* the tribes that we are not waging
• cruesde age net the religion, nsr do we purpose to
luterfere with them liberties forth. r than it bacosteary to I
suppr.se the slava trate nt maintain the tra le route of
the Nil,, Whether tho Molten would c unseat to plisse
hi. influence at the disposal of those who seek to avert
bloodshed In this mann. r is not yet known,
llganeavattgas. KOl7l, Seta:day.
Colonel lizahnont has stated for the hoot with
despatches. A ovewengar from Khartoum ham made his
way across the Desert to Dobbeb. From the report. that
this moo brines, the Mallet el Bagels ie at last
°armload that likertanto has taloa sad that (laden la