New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-16
THE VAR AGAINST Ell NAHDI.
EFFECT OF THE BRITISH VICTORIES.
THE GOVERNMENTS POLICY UNDErERHINED-CON-
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DUCT OF THE ENGLISH TROOPS.
LONDON, March 15.-The Government are III
doubt what further steps to take IN tie Soudah no"
that General Graham has won his second brilliant
victory Before coming to a decision they have
telegraphed to ask General GOrdons opinion. But
the wires are cut below KhartOum, and it is impOs-
sible to tell how long it will take for advlces to
reach him and for response TO be returned.
Before the battle General Gordon advised that the
cavalry should march to Berber and escort the
garrison of Khartoum back to Suakim. The Gov
ernment decline to publish the latest dispatches
received from General Gordon There is reason to
believe however, that they contain urgent demands
upon the Government to send British forces TO
Khartoum 10y way of SuakIm.
THE REBELS NOT DIsHEARTENED.
Sir Evelyn Barring, the British Minister at Cairo,
warns the Government that the spirit of the Arab
leaders is still unbroken. He asserts that as many
as thirty different tribes in the S0udan are prepared
to maintain the war. General Graham teegraphs
that in case he Is ordered to advance into the in
terror reinforcements must be sent to him. All the
indications 90 to show that the rebellion in the
Soudan is of a much more formidable character
than it has been supposed to be. People had
imagined that a single decisive defeat by British
troops would so dishcarten the rebels that they
would be ready TO come to terms But it looks as
though they were still determined to continue the
conflict and the spirit of insunectOn seems to be
spreading The impOssibility of taking prisoners Is
a discouraging feature of the war; and the natural
difficulties of the country and severity of the eli
mate to Europeans render prolonged campaign es-
pecially hazardous and arduOus.
The Cabinet Council to day subjected the whole
question to profound deliberation but 1t was i'm
possible to come to any decision upon the line of
policy be pursued. 1t Is reported that Earl Gran
ville the Foreign Secretary, insists upon the recall
of General Gordon, whose sanity is called in ques-
tOn.
PANIC AMONG THE EGYPTIAN TROOPS.
Suakm adyices state that panic occurred last
night among the Egyptian troops under Baker
Pacha, who are still in camp at Zarba. They got
the notion that the rebels approaching, became
frightened and took 10 their heels. Before the panic
was allaycd. two men taken for rebels and
killed.
The troops returning to Suakim checred greatly
the personal herOism Of Adams Fraser, the largest
man of the Black Watch regiment Twelve Arabs
were laid low by his single bayonet. Drummond,
of the same regiment bayOnetcd Osman Digma's
nephew. Fifty men have left Chatham to fill the
vacancies in the Black Watch regiment.
DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
In the House of Commons to-day the Marquis of
Harrington announced that telegraphc cOmmunca-
ton with Khartoum had been broken for three
davs. and that steamer had been subjected to a
fusade between Khartoum and Shendy. He
believed that the tribes in that region had risen in
revolt.
Ellis Bartlett, Conservative member for Eye and
Henry Labouchere, Radical, member for North,
ampton, attacked the Government. Lord Edmund
Fitlmaurice Under Foreign Secretary, retuted the
charge that the relations between England and
Germany were unfriendy and denied that General
Gordon was in extremlties. He asserted that the
withdrawal of the garrison from Kassala would be
perfectly easy as soon as the differences were set
tied as the King of Abyssnia was friendly. a ms
sion had been sent to Abyssnla To settle the dlier-
ences between the King and Egypt IN regard to the
frontier and upon religious questions III was hcces,
sary that civilized power should control the Red
Sea ports, so as to insure the suppression Of the
slave trade and maintain communication with In
dia Instructions had been sent to General Graham
not to proceed to Berber
Mr.. LabOuCheTe offered motion that the loss of
the British and the Arabs in the Soudan was
necessary. This rejected by vote of l II 10 o.
The Right Hon. Sir Michael Hicks Beach, ConSeT-
that he overheard Sir William V. liarcourt, Home
Secretary, say, after the vote had been taken so
this dirty trick did not succeed" Sir William
HaTCOurt expressed his regret at having made use
of the words complained OF. lie said he had no ill.,
tentOr of giving pain 10 any one.
CAIRO, March 15.-lhcre are indications of in
crcaslng activity on the part Of the rebels the
Nile. Beyond Berbcr Geographic communication
has been cut off, and a steamer descending the Nile
from that city has been fired upon by the insur-
gents.