The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-29

he expects to be able to have completed. to-mor-
row. sufficient water stores to enable his army
to advance to Tamai He says he has ordered
all the available men from the seven war-ships,
anchored in tho Red sea off Suakim, for garri-
son duty in the town, SO that the whole regular
force at Suakim can be used IN the advance
against Osman Digna.
The censorship over all kilograms sent from
Suakim to the press has been made recently
much stricter than ever. Cablegrams received
from Suez between which place and Sua-
kim there is good communication, show
that General Graham is making very
little progress in his expedition to
Beruer. After Ills much-heralded advance. to
make which, Two weeks have been consumed,
and several hundred lives lost, his camp is to-
day Just two miles nearer Berber than is
Suakim. The camp is connected with Suakim
by tramway. Nothing has yet beer. done in
the way OF constructing the projected Berber
railway, and the transport service Is very defec-
tive. For want of better transport service, the
whole army is suffering. men, mules and camels
being compelled to carry otherwise unnecessary
burdens in torrid heat. Typhoid fever and dys-
EMERY are quite prevalent among the troops. al
though in the official dispatches to London the
health of the soldiers is described as excellent
At Gen. McNeils zeraba there have been many
cases of fatal as well as disabling sunstroke. :.
Military papers severely criticise General
Graham's conduct of the Suakim Berber cam
paign. The Army and Navy Gazette says that
at the rate at which General Graham is making.
progress it is safe to calculate that Christmas OF
1885 will see him half way to Berber.
From Dongola comes the intelligence that the
dreaded kamsin wind began to blow on Wednes-
day last The heat is excessive, but 1T is said
the health OF the men with General Wolse!ey re-
mains good.
The Arabs friendly to Ell Mahdi, instead of
abandoning the Prophets cause seem to become
daily more hostile to tho British in the Soudan.
while the men find it worth their lives to stray
from any of the British camps beyond the lines.
At Debbeh and Tamai, lately, no man attached to
the British force has succeeded in going beyond
the outposts without being grossly insuited or
attacked. Several men who recently strayed
from the camps at both places have not returned,
and have undoubtedly been killed.
Nearly all the infantry and cavalry engaged
in the conveys have arrived at the zeraba on the
Tamai road. The number of sun strokes among
the troops daily increases. The troops are
greatly overworked with convoy duty during the
day, and sentry service at night The building
of the Berber railway has been suspended out
side Suakim, owing to the inability of the army
to afford protection along the line beyond the
camps It has been decided that the forces
necessary for such protection cannot be spared
at least until after the impending battle at
Tamai--which is expected to be decisive-shall
railroad construction will be employed, in the
meantime, in the much needed work OF lmproy-
ing the harbor accommodations.
The federation of the Liberal Association,
which yields the greatest influence upon Liberal
votes, has decided to actively oppose the contn-
uance of war in the Soudan. 1t is believed the
government is not unwilling to submit to party
coercion. An opinion prevails that the Ministry
will abandon its intention to march to khartoun
and that after the defeat of OsmansDigna has
been accomplished the government will endeavor
to open negotiations with the Mahdi