The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-02-28
TIDINGS FROM THE SOUDAN.
rHE FIRST NEWS IN YEARS OF tHD
SITUATION OF THE MAHDI1&

They Have Completely As..Aon.a D.rfu.-.
Only the Northern Part OF Enin's Prov.
lace Fell Iass Thsir Haads-Three.artAs
or the People Perish or War. Famine.
and Diseass-Ths Khslisa's Misru,e.
Since Gnrdon's fall at Khnrtoum we have
been almost entirely without news from thu
Soudan. and particularly from the southern
and western part OF the great region msyoy-
erned by the Mahdrs successor. A great deal
OF interesting and important Information has
just been received from that almost inaccessi-
BILE country. and Il was pubshe ed recent ly In the
London Tvnsa Much OF this Information was
derived from Gather Ohrwalder. the Austrian
| missionary, who, with two nuns, made his es>
cape from Omdurman . short time ayo. Othet
information has come from equal sources.
TWAS estimated few years ago that the DOB
ulation OF the Egyptian Soulsn was ut least II.
100000. Father Ohrwaldsr la OF the opinion
that ut least thrsc-fliths OF the entire popula.
ton have been destroyed during the past tam
| years BY war. famine. and dlsslsa Women
are now In o large preponderanca throughout
The country. Supplies are plentiful In thu
6oudan. and tho desert wells are full OF wutsn
| Smallpox has been endemic for several yea-n
and an annual visitation OF typhus fever bns
Rrcatly depleted the population OF all the large
| centres. like Dongola. Berber. Gnlabet, Kss4
sala. &c. Tho people are not suffering nov
! for food. IS they were two years ago but they
| are tired Of war. and would accept any a,tbo.i
! ty which would insure them period Of p.acl
| Ever since the Nshdi captured khart,u.n
| his followers hive male gunrowdrr. The
| product was. however. OF nn in'erl,r quality
until Greek named Yusef Perteiaki succeed.
ed. after many attem pts. in making powder n
! n very good quality. We heard last spring n
m n r rl,eioo AZ ()n,dtruonn Tho raa,,l,, -
| disaster wore not so serious "a was reported.
although seventeen persons lost their lives
among whom was tho Greek. TIL. powder
factory was removed then from Omdurman 10
Tut Island. at the junction OF the White
and Blue Nile. and tho product 10
stored in bRrracks, u safe distance from
any habitation. About 800 pounds Of powder
are produced every day, and there IL in conse.
auence plenty Oft. The great difficulty is In
getting lead. the supply OF which In the soudan
is entirely exhausted. Attempts were made to
make bullets with a mixture Of c,nrer and
iron. but the experiment was failure. andAp
to the time Father Ohrwa!der left. the {
Guilty had not been overcome. The late Lup
Boy was forced to teach some dervshes how
to make illuminate. The work Is carried On
now by n dervish who married Lupton's black
wife. It will be recalled that Lupton Boy WIS
an Englisbnan who was serving Egypt 40
Governor Of Bahr el Ghaznl when the Soudau
fell into the hands Of the Mahdi.
Poor Neufeld is heavily chained and ID
working at the manufacture OF saltpetrs.
which is carried on in tho old Austrian Mis-.
sion Church across the river from ON iurnau
in Khartoum. Two other ssltpetre pits arc
being worked In other parts OF the country.
Neufeld IL not one Of the original prisoners.
He walked into the lions den about three or
four years ago. believing that he could secure
the release Of the white captives. He did
them no good Whatever and was simply made
a prisoner himself
The world has been curious. since the return
Of Emin to the coast with Stanley. to know
what became Of his old equatorial province.
It was known that the dervishes from Omdur-
man had possession Of the northern part OF the
province. 1t is now known that they did not
advance to WadelaL They captured Regal.
one OF Emin Pasha's most northern posts, but
were unsuccessful in their attempts to take
Dufle. further up the river. and 50 they did not
attempt to take possession Of the entire PROV.
ince. The British. In advancing their inter.
ests. under Capt Lueard. to wadelai. will prob
ably not como in contact with the Arabs. The
Khalifa has kept steamboat running between
Regal and Omdurman. in ordor to bring up
ivory and large supply OF, ivory which
reached Suakin at the end OF 1890 and was
brought from the northern part OF Emn's old
province.
A considerable force Of dervlshes is kept At
Fashoda. little north OF Emin's province to
collect slaves. cattle. and tribute from tho
Shiluks. That tribe Is very numerous In
habits the Nile for more than $50 miles, and is
OF warlike disposition. They have had hard
fights with the dervishes. whose superior
equipment enabled them at last to defeat the
negroes. The latter retired to their strong.
holds. a little way from the river. where they
now defy the dervishes. At last accounts de-.
sultory fighting was going on. but It Is Thought
the shilluks cannot much longer offer effective
resistance. as the force opposed to them now
numbers 5000 mon.
Lupton Bey's old province is now entirely
deserted by the dervishes. That Is large
r For some time after the Mahdi gained Posses-
Bey. slave rsidinr EXPEDITIONS n1 cyerran p the
SsssSs: Sss 1T lsSss J: tss LIZ
s% S;t;; SOURCE With eo.ns%: Tie. news: .
Ss n 81 Ahs
exc SsI as d tSe
country became infested BY elephants. lions,
ISaaS I . aleqIt e rlG;ars iocd Tor 81: @sa
lnHt no WTOt0 tOtNe hndIiIb, H6kluH p0fmleBlO0
to retire east to Nahud q station midway
between b Fl flasher the capital Of DsEtur, and
liza agreed. and Fl flasher was evacuated about
Juns: lSDl: LA. Many q the people whom M.h.
removed from their own country. and l,OOO OF
hem hem i reyoitsd and returned to they homes.
chere he is now. and that. place. therefore.
orms the extre wsstern limit Of the Kha.
Darfur.
The northern limit Of the Khaliiss influence
Nadi Ha!fs, where en- Egyptian. garrison 10
,t ia Ths le5es Of the dsryishes q Don:
ocsl Arabs. They have few cannon ana
Moderate Quantity Of ammqnitlon; They
Egyptian frSntisE ia 1851 "a .Js9nary
sst +. year the Khediys visited wadt
b as ssa e1khsalvsf a9s sns IN hnS9na S1
I. IN C. Cairo q. sqd that ,he had sent
tied the soudsness considsrabiy. For. some
ime the Emir at Dongola sent camel men