The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-03-20
THE WAR IN EGYPT.
Soldiers from India Repulsing the
False Prophets Arabs.
Ell Mahdi Issuing Proolamations to
the Faithful"

The Indian native soldiers Of the Sikhs
regiment have been in their first engagement
on Egyptian soil. A party of Osman
Digma's Arabs made an attack on one of the
British outposts in the neighborhoot of Sua-
kim, and the Sikhs were sent out into the
open field to repel the attack. They were
splendidly handled, and they showed adj
mirable GOODNESS and steadiness. The Skin
mish was hot while it lasted, but the Arabs
were soon repulscd, and many of their dead
were left upon the field. The casualties
among the Indian troops were few and UNI
important. The Arabs became panic-stricken
when they saw the swarthy Mohammedans
from India facing them in true British style
and delivering their fire with such precision
as to make almost every shot tell.
The hostile Arabs at night attacked the
ordnance enclosure of the garrison near Sua-
kim aud killed two scntries belonging TO the
berkshire regiment and wounded three 9TH
ers. In this engagement in the dark one of
the attacking party was killed and several
were wounded. The enemy also surprised
the Shropshire infantry regiments patrol,
killing one man and %wOunding one. One man
belonging to this patrol has been missing
since the engagement.
When the attack was made, the rebels, in
answer to the challenge of the pickets, re-
piled: "Friends." They then swarmed into
the Zereba, overpowered the picketS and at
tackled the guards, but hearing men landing
from the gunboat Condor, they decanped,
carving with them all their dead and
wounded except the body OF their leader,
Abdul, who was Osman Digma's standard
bearer. Six of the British guards were
killed, and seven others were wounded.
The British government has ordered the
contractors to hasten the construction of the
Suakim Berber Railway. Two hundred adj
ditional navv.es have been sent to work upon
the road.
The Royal Irish regiment have arrived at
Korti from Gakdul Wells. On the route they
saw some 400 hostile Arabs between Magaga
and Howeiyat.
The Turkish authorities in the Arabian
province of Hedjaz have seized several hun
bred placards which had been distributed by
emissarieso of Ell Mahdi at Jeddah, Dokah Lith
and other seaport towns opposite the Soudan.
The placards order the 'faithfur' to organize
and eXpel the Turks from Arabia, promising
that the prophet will soon arrive at Jeddah
and will lead his hosts to Mecca, where there
will be DISPLAYS in the sky such as will leave
no doubt of his identity. The placards have
caused an incipient rebellion, and the Turk
ish governor is trying to suppress the revolt
General Gordon's diary is written on Egyp-
tian telegraph blanks. The pages are sewed
together with Irvine, and every page is il
Illuminated with pictures, fantastic and seri
Gus. GoIdon's letters indicate that his diary
was written for the use of the English gov
eminent. 1t is desired that the government
should edit this diary and publish fac smile
of it as soon as all of it has reached Lon
don. The diary as left by Gordon is in 81,
volumes.
The Earl Of Merely, under secretary of war
replying to the Earl of Galloway in the Brit
ish house of lords, said that he thought a vot
of thanks just now to General Lord Wolsele.
and his army for the work accomplished i
the Khartoum expedition would be soinewha
premature.