Morning journal and courier., 1888-12-21
THE VICTORY ATsUAx1m.

Brilliant Result Of q Combined As. tack On she Rebels-DeGails of she Batsle-E&ecss On BrItIah Policy IR
 Egypt-NO News From Stanley.
 LONDON, Dec. BOA dispatch from Sua- kim says: The combined force of British and Egyptians made an attack yesterday upon the rebel position. They stormed the re- doubts and trenches, and, after brilliant engagement, lasting half an hour, drove the enemy into the bush. The rebels are report ed to have lost thousand men killed. The British loss was slight. The British are en- eamped in the rebel position. The victory was complete. A later dispatch from Sua- kim says: The British lost four men killed, and two wounded during 8 gallant cavalry charge. The Egyptians and black regi- ments charged the trenches and carried them brilliantly, losing two men killed and thirty wounded. The only officers wounded in the attacking force were two Egyptians. The rebel loss is now stated to have been 400.
 DETAILS OF THE ASSAULT.
 feature of the fighting was the deter mined rush upon the trenches by the blacks and the Egyptians. The dervishes fought with the utmost bravery, great many of them dying in the trenches. The charge of the Hussars is also specially mentioned. When the dervish cavalry saw them coming they disnouuted from their horses and plant ed their spears in the ground, but these proved no obstruction to the Hussars, who swept down upon the dervish horsemen like and avalanche cut through the ranks, and left half of them dead. The Hussars then reformed and charged the remaining der wishes, who fed. A large portion of the rebel force were not engaged in to-day's ErphN A0S,, aI, !, and the wells beyond that place. It Is be- ieved the rebels will be reinforced and make an attempt soon to retake their lost position.
 STORIES OF THE PRISONERS.
 Osman Digna's nephew and twelve der- wishes were captured. All are wounded. The prisoners say they believe that all the mounted gunners were killed. All tell the same story of privation and cruelty at the hands of the Mahdi and Osman Digma. None of them wished to fight, but were forced 10 do so or persuaded to fight by promises of loot at Suakim and other re. wards. The trenches were bare. They found no food, clothing or money, but only snider rifles and cart reported capture of Emin or of the fall of the equatorial provinces. The natives assert that Hindoub would fall at the first approach of our troops. The government ought not to lose this chance. The task is an easy one as there is not the slightest sign of any gathering of the local tribes.''
 The customary outcry is already raised in favor of annexation. Sir Lepei Griffin says that so long as England holds Suakim for the justly detested Egyptian government the fanatical tribes will swarm about the out- posts, and that the true remedy is the annex ation of Suakim and the surrounding country to the British empire. He prophecies that in six months Suakim would then be as quiet as South Kensington.
 The Post says that Lieutenant Weissman will endeavor to learn the fate of Emin en route. In the event of the report of Enin's capture being confirmed he will establish stations at intervals from the coast inland.
 Stanley Believed to be Living.
 LONDON, Dec. 20.-At meeting to-day the council of the English East Africa com- pany, the majority of whom are concerned in