The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-21
SHE REMEMBERS KHART0UM
DONGOLA HAS F4iLLEN-ENGLIND TO RE-CON0UEL THE SOUD1N.

IO NL~CO0nOEA I'll E SOOOa&'s At Fl Hafir the Dervishes Made a Brave
 stand, But Could Not Endure the Terri
 ble Fire From the Maxim Gun--Dongola
 Was Unoccupied-Native Egytians, Com
 naught Rangers and Staffordshire Troops
 Fight Side by Side--Wady Bishar, Leader
 of the Dervishes, Wounded, Exclaimed,
 "Ailah is Against Me"-HTore Fighting
 to Follow.
 Cairo, Sept 20-A dispatch from the Anglo Egyptian expedition states that Dongola, the objective point of the ex- petition, has been taken without meet ing with any resistance from the derv- ishes, the place being unoccupied. The dispatch adds that the town of Fl Hair, north of Dongola, to which place the dervishes retreated yesterday was captured after a hot engagement.
 After the place had fallen into the hands of the expedition the Egyptians captured twenty-seven grain laden boats, the loss of which will prove a severe blow to the dervishes. The lat ter made desperate attempts to recap ture the boats, but a heavy fire was poured into them by the troops and the gunboats and they were finally com pelled to abandon their attempts to re- gain possession of the boats and their cargoes.
 After their defeat the entire dervish force retreated southward. At the same time the expedition's steamers started for Dongola and being the quicker reached there before the derv- ishes. The city was found to be desert- ed by warriors and the steamers at once landed a force of infantry to hold it until the arrival of the main body. At the time the dispatch was sent the dervishes were approaching Dongola overland and scouts reported that they were carrying many of their wounded with them. Included among the wounded are some of the most noted chiefs.
 It is expected that as the dervishes are without food or other stores they will make most desperate attempt to again get possession of Dongola.
 El Hafir was not taken by the troops until after a most stubborn resistance on the part of the dervishes had been overcome. The riflemen of the latter fought behind well made mud forts and in trenches that were strewn with mats. These defences however, were soon wrecked by the heavy fire of the Egyptian artillerists and the Maxim battery that was manned by the Con- naught Rangers. The dervishes stood the fire bravely, but were finally com pelled to withdraw from the place. Their cavalry took no part in the en- gagement, remaining some distance off in the desert, watching the result of the battle. When the British and Egyptians landed the entire force re- treated south.
 The capture of the place was hailed with delight by the natives, who have long been harried by the dervishes. They shouted, danced and sang in a frenzied manner The country round Eli Hafir is fertile and there is plenty of green fodder for the camels and oth- CT animals of the expedition.
 London, Sept 20.-The correspondent of the News, who is with the Soudan expedition, telagraphs that in the at- tack on Hafir the dervishes were out witted. They all advanced sn land to meet the troops, thus permitting the gunboats to slip past the town, sink one of their steamers and hurry on to Dongola. When the dervishes saw the move they turned and tried to overtake to gunboats and save Dongola, but the land forces of the expedition headed them off.
 The Staffordshire regiment will fol- low the gunboats to Dongola and thus the dervishes will be placed between two fires. Wady Bishar, the leader of the dervishes. was wounded at Fl Hafir. He was carried outside the range of the guns. A prisoner states that when he saw he was defeated he exclaimed: Allah is against me-"