Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-25
LAUNDERING ATHASHEEN
RECALL OF SOME OF THE GEN
ERALS POSSIBLE.

The British Losses Daring the Arab
Rush Now Admitted to be About $50
Digna to Try to StarYe Out the Brit
1sh-Ne Signs of a Decisive Coup.
LONDON, March 24.-The body of Sheik
Faggiah, one Of Osman Digna's most fa-
nous chiefs, was discovered among the
Arab dead left on the battlefield last Sun
day, at Gen. McNeips zereba.
The Egyptian troops at Suakin Will be
shipped back to Cairo tomorrow. A
prisoner reports that Osman Digna's men
at Tamai are sending all their women
and children back into the hills and
preparing to make desperate resistance
to the British advance. The Shropshire
Regiment, accompanied by convoy, has
started to join Gen. Mcneil at the
Hasheen zereba.
NC NEILL'S ALLEGED BLUNDER.
In the House of Lords this evening Ba-
ron Greville gave notice that he would
ask the Duke of Cambridge whether in
view of the heavy losses in Sundays en-
gagement, which were due to disregard OF
the most ordinary military precautions,
Gen. McNeill retained the confidence Of
the Duke. Earl Northbrook, in reply to
NiscOunt Sidmouth, SAID that a naval
officer had been sent to America TO inspect
newly invented torpedo boat, but it was
not desirable to publish the RESULT Of his
investigation yet.
GRAHAM TO BE RECALLED.
The War Office is dissatisfied with Gen.
Graham's management of the advance,
and he Will probably be recalled. The
50. James Gazette denOunces the inca
pacity shown at headquarters, and says:
This murderous military scuffie would
never have happened if Gems. Mcneil
and Graham had taken precautions which
should have occurred to cadet" The
general press comments are in the same
tone.
THE LOSSES ON THE INCREASE.
The latest returns regarding the cas-
ualties in Sundays engagement show
that including the Indian troops and ex-
elusive of the camp followers, officers
and "a men were killed, and that officers
and 1856 men are wounded. One officer
and 10 men were reported missing. The
Guards AMI marasszss, while advancing
from the Hasaeen zereba to-day to meet q
convoy from Suakn, had several mus
kerry sklrmishes with the rebels, during
which 16 Uf the British were wounded and
l man was killed.
DIGNA's PLANS.
Osman Digna has ordered his Arabs
not to attack the British positions In in
trenched zerebas on the road to Tamai,
but to intercept and destroy all conveys
OF water and provisions on their way to
the Zerebas, so as to starVe the garrisous,
The dead Arabs found upon the field
near Tamai after the recent engagements
were very much emaciated, which proves
that Osman Digna Is short of food.
Two powerful native tribes have re-
belled against FL Mahdi.
The guards and marines sustained four
attacks by the rebels. Many OF the Arabs
were killed. Several armed women were
seen among the enemy. The escort to the
convoy, while returning to Suakin, was
not molested by the enemy. A scarcity of
camels will delay the advance on Tamai.
The transport and c0mmissariat
branches OF the British service alone lost
100 men killed in last Sundays engage
ment near Tamai. The country between
Suakin and the Zerebas is swarming with
Arabs.
An Egyptian loan of a9,OOO,OOO will be
issued in London, Paris and Berlin at
per cent. One-half per cent. will be added
to the sinking fund for the reduction Of
the loan. The issue price is 80.
The government officials at Chatham
nave been ordered to prepare for imme-
date service large draft Of transport
troops, which it is supposed will be sent
to Suakin. The Chatham officials have
also been suddenly ordered to put an
irOnclad in commission.
ITALY TO RUN NO RISK.
La DirtttO of Rome alludes to the fight
on Sunday as a tremendous defeat of the
British, which will inspire with new
courage the whole Arab world, and make
it necessary for Italy to send 1000 more
men at once to Massowah, in order not TO
risk beginning the campaign with such
an experience as that of Gen. Graham's
expedition. Capt. Groppi, before leaving
Rome to join Gen. Graham's staff, had a
long audience with King Humbert.
A dispatch from KOrti says that a
messenger who has arrived from the
vicinity OF Kassala reports that the
powerful Shukeiryah tribe has revolted
against Ell Mahdi.