Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-10
EL MAHDrS ADVANCE
Checked bv Fierce Gssensions
Among His Men.
fooR CID EGYPT WAITING TO SEE
II John Bull Will Come to Her Aid-A
Trfling Rsques: 10 Which slrQljs
Tseng Demands an Inme-
date Reply.

LoSpoN, December a.-The dispatches
received st Cairo to-day attributed the
failure of II Mahdi TO continue his sd
vance on X hsrtoum TO the breaking ont OF
dissensions ,,mong the heads OF the Vari'
Gus tribes marching under mis- banners.
Some of these advocate an advance upon
Dongola. while Others prefer an attack on
Khartoum, The two factions cannot agree
on a plan of operations. The Mudir at
Donsols reports 20 the Egyptian govern.
ment, moreover, that detection OF the
Kebabish tribes to Aahdi viii inevitably
occur il that leaders forces
Continue Thesr AdVRsec.
Major Evelyn Barring has sent dispatch
to Col. Coetlegan. insisting that an enort
be made at once TO communicate By means
Of smissaries, with Fl Obeid, in ORDER TO ss.
certain the truth or falsity Of the rumors
that a portion of Hicks Pashs's force is still
intrenched at Berket. Also TO learn
whether the Mahdi will consent TO give up
the English officers, who still remain pris-
oners in his hands, provided sufficient
ransom be paid. Xebehr Psshs, the agent
OF the Egyptian Government at Cordoran.
has also received instructions 10
Hegotintr win the shicks
who supports the Mahdi, for the release OF
all Egyptian prisoners. Colonel Coetlesan
has been instructed tn hold khartoum
until Baker rashs formally orders him 10
evsCua,e IL. The transport service contin-
ues 10 be very defective, and II will be I'M
possible for the entire force 10 reach Sau.
kim for another ten days.
Eaker Pasha has sent a protest 10 the
Minister Uf War at Cairo, in which he ar
rues that SuakIm should not he made the
hase OF upeIstions, and advocates, as being
tie best Tor strategic purposes, that routn
UP the Valley ut the Nile which goe, by
nav oi Wu,Yh.lf-. 4 d".rslon ~ Ia
" ether Assouan shall De made the base
a.: the
,ornbinrd System of Egypt'an DE
tense
has been suspended until n declaration
Shall have been mad" by the government
ui Great Britain as TO whether Engl lini
will accept the defense Of the frontier.
hftcr that question has been settled the
line OF MaEdis advance will be sScer-
tam, q. and then the question OF the OBJ
i.cliye base will receive attention. Should
the Mshii nttacS pper Egypt, proceed
ing via pongola, Bakers force, acting with
the forces which can be concentrated NJ
Assonam, will make n stand agsins' him.
The troops stationed at Suakim keep up
n continuous blaze day and night Rt the
rebels " lao Surround that town.
The Rebels Answer the Fire.
but no casualties have yet occurred. The
English 1nicers have led sortiss on two &C.
caslOns, and have put the rebel troops to
fight, but each time, after pursuing them
for a short distance gave up the chase md
returned TO IN" garrison. Tie consent
given by the English Government that
Turkish trgatcs may he permitted 10 act
in concert with the British Is coupled with
the stipulation that they shall carry no
Turkish forces.
The Egyptian Government has renewed
its representations to Great Britain that
there iss pressing necessity Tor their as
sis,ance in the war. The khediye lays
particular stress on
The snppresstos o. The nsvese '--
~ S-H"nl, That being the center OF tho
Turn,vu wv '"nrr'-- '--.~.rh, -i,ssP. z. ssso:e-
Iopua.so. ,rtiers received Ipn~' ds-
report tGe' lheI' - Increasing sy, iuni:
among the natives, o.. -ocnnns eA.ltemeHt
torious progress OF the -. M .as YIc.
other hand, Algeria appears To On Va.
come more quite. The French posts Ia 70
interior have been reinforced.