The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-08
BIG BOOBIES.
Great Britain Trying to Conquer
the Fierce Mahdists.
With a Lot of Weeping, BIubber-
ing Native Egyptians.
ENGLISH WON'T FIGHT,
But They Pit Half Civilized
Race
Against Another to Slaughter
Each Other in Africa
FOR FNGLAND'S GAIN.
Disaster Likely to Attend the
Advance on DOngOla
When the SpiritIess Egyptian
Fellaheen Get Into Battle.
FOR ENGLAND'S GAIN.
Disaster Likely to Attend the
Advance on DOngola
When the Spiritless Egyptian
FelIaheen Get Into Battle.

New York. April 8.-A dispatch to the
Herald from Cairo, says:
1T cannot be denied that there ex-
lists in Cairo a strong apprehension that
disaster viii soon overtake the head of
the Dongola expedition. Merchants
here who have business relations with
the soudanese, report that they have
information of a great rising and raj
lying of the dervishes in and around
DongoIa. They confirm the report that
the green flag is up and the Holy war
declared. Their opinion is that $4,000
men will soon be ready to intercept the
march Of the Egyptian army, if
the plan of pushing beyond Akasheh,
is persisted in.
Gen. Kitchener is known to be yearn-
ing for fresh military glory. Aggres-
sive and self wiled it is feared he viii
fall into the error recently committed
by Gen. Baratieri, in Abyssinia. He is
! carefully f0rtifying his head advances
and in the event Of an ordinary reverse
he may be able to hold out until Eng
/ lish succor arrives.
An American gentleman just down
from Wady HaIfa says ne met several
/ thousand Egyptian recruits and rail-
wav laborers going forward, hundreds
bereaved children. NO dependence can
be placed on these men. The prelmi-
nary skirmishiug so far has given some
/ confidence to the Egyptian troops The
policy o. Ire S5oues-slg gs5als evidently 10
draw the invading army as far from
It's base this summer as possible, so
/ that when the main assault is made it
4 viii mean a slaughter
Many wen Informed persons here ex-
1 press the belief that the fall of Hicks
/ Pasha awaits the sirdar's column The
dervishes are better armed and better
/ prepared to fight, than when they
! checked Lord Wolseley's advance. The
English, as a rule, pooh-pooh the idea
4 of defeat, but they are all extremely
/ anxious lit is feared that the troubles
4 in Matabeleland may embarrass the
I English government and weaken the
] support Of the DOngOla expedition,
/ which must soon be forthcoming. The
/ dervishes are very active in the rear
! OF the Egyptian column. and great diff
1 Guilty is experienced already in keeping
up telegraphic communication
NEWS HARD TO GET
i Copyright 1896 by Associated Press.1
Cairo. April S-Each additional bud
! get OF news from the front increases
the anxiety here in unofficial circles as
to the fate Of the vanguard Of the An
! glO-Egyptian army
The news of the movement south
ward Of the troops has spread with that
wonderful rapidity which has frequent
( ly been noticed as one of the features
| of campaigning in the SOudan- While
/ the British intelligence department eX-
periences the greatest difficulty in OBJ
tanning information regarding the
movements Of the dervishes the latter
! apparently having spies in all quarters
4 succeed in Transmitting important
news with lightning like rapidity. Thus
u in some mysterious manner, the news
of the Anglo-Egyptian advance
| has been communicated to the
most distant quarters of the
/ Dfohammedan world and the departure
/ of pilgrims for Mecca has been sus-
/ pended. Whieh means that the khalifa
| is calling upon his warriors to muster
/ to the standard. and that the holy war
| which he recently proclaimed agai ',st
Egypt is to be pushed with all desper-
[ ate energy for derVish leaders
The Khalifa has decreed that the
I tribes Immediately collect and forward
/ to Omdurman a heavy war tax, that
/ the picket warriors be hurried to that
/ camp and that all preparations be
/ made for a long campaign. He eX-
1 poets to muster an army of 1000 men,
/ composed Of the bese fighting men of
/ the Soudan by September when the
Anglo Egyptian advance viii be met
by the khalifa in person The latter
/ has recalled the dervish armies from
/ FashOda and Dartur 1t is believed
I that the siege of KassaIa viii shortly
be raised if it has not already been
raised in order that the dervishes now
( before that place may be utilized at
KhartOum and DOngala.
The Khalifa writing to the Shefk of
AssOuan under date of December last
said that he was always ready to sub
NIT to the authority of the l1hedive Of
Egypt as the representative of the sui
tan. out that he would tresist to the
death" any expedition coming from
Egypt so long as the British occupy
the country
The Khalifa concluded: s'I am aware
that the British desire to have me as
sassinated. but I have taken precau-
IL.