The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-23
DYNAMITE FOR THE MAHDI.
Communists from Paris Sending Missionaries
to the Soudan Against the English.

Communists from Paris Sending Missionaries
to the Soudan Against the English.
New York World.
For some time it has been noticed that great
activity has prevailed among the dynamite ele'
ment in Paris, Secret meetings have been fire.
quently held, and delegates have quietly come
and gone, from America and elsewhere. These
meetings have been noted in the London
press, whose Paris correspondents have ex-
planned the activity of the dynamiters as a prep
aration for congress shortly to be held in that
city for the purpose of bringing about union
between the advocates of scientific warfare"
and the old Fenian organization. THE real
cause of the unusual stir among the dynamite
war party who have made Paris their headouar-
ters, said dynamiter yesterday, "has not
been the assembling of an impossible congress,
but the adoption of means 10 assist Ell Mahdi
in the destruction of the British force in Africa
1t has been learned from a secret but reliable
that certain individuals skilled in the use
of explosives and who have seen military service
in Europe and America, have left Paris already
and are now on their way to the Soudan. 1t is
said that the suggestion originated with Henri
Rochefort, through whose services 'safe con-
duct was obtained for the missionaries 1t will
be remembered that when j. j. OkeliY was sent
out by the London Daily News, after the death of
ODonovan with Hicks Pasha's army, Rochefort
procured for him letters securing him safe con-
duct to the camp of the Mahdi. The letters
were procured from an Arab, resident in Paris.
who edits little paper published in Arabic and
English, and which is distributed among the
leading Moslems in several cities of the Levant
O'Kelly proceeded on his way to join
the Mahdi, and would have sue
ceeded, but that Clifford Lloyd. learn
ing his intention, intercepted him and held
him prisoner. Besides, it is certain that Oil
yer Pain the Communist, and other Europeans
known to Rochefort and his friend, are at pres
ent in Eel Mahdis service. The object of the
missionaries will be to instruct the Mahdi in the
best manner of paralyzing and destroying the
will endeavor to press on Ell Mahdi and his ad-
visers the necessity of avoiding pitched battles
or fighting in the open and will demonstrate to
him the advantage of fighting at night instead Of
in the day. BY simply harassing the British in
the day time and attacking them at night the ad-
vantages or disadvantages on both sideS will be
equaliZed. The Arab spear in the dark will be
rs effective as the English bayonet and machine
guns and magazine guns will be useless. Have
not English officers declared that, man for man,
the British were not equal to the Arabs in
the hand-to hand fight at Teb, when Osman
Digna's men smashed the British square and
turned for a time the English defense into an
| utter .routfi And have not the Arabs, almost
every time they attacked the invader since,
taken the much belauded British square, hith
erto deemed inyinciblel While some of the
missionaries will strike direct for the Mahdis
camp, others will proceed to join Osman Digna,
near Suakim. Some difficulty may be encoun-
tered in reaching Ell Mahdi, but there will be no
trouble in reaching the camp of Osman Digna
Indeed, it is through Osman Digna's territory,
and not by way of Cairo, that the missionaries
purpose going. They do not believe in Wolse-
leys nineteen hundred mile strategy
And now, as the fall of Khartoum, with all
its arms and military stores, will place an abun-
dance of resources in the hands of the Mahdi the
Paris council. deem it all the more necessary to
dispatch a few experienced and daring indi-
viduals to the aid of the Arab chief certain
number of missionaries were to be sent from
America, and it has leaked out that arrange
ments have been made with the Bordeaux
Transatlantic and an Italian line of steamers for
the transportation of number of individuals
under fctcious names, to the ports of Marseilles
and Havre, whence they will be conveyed by
the Messenger Maritime Company to some point
on the Red sea coast