The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-09-24
DONG0LA is TAKEN
THE ANGLO-EGYPTIAN EXPEDITION
AGAIN SUCCESSFUL.
After Defeating the Dervishes and
Taking Hahr the Forces March
I TO DongoIn, which They Occupy
Before the Retrenting Dervishes
Reach That Point-Maxim Guns
XIII Many Dervishes

SCopyright, 1896, Associated Press.)
Kerma-on-the-Nile, Sept. %. - Don
COLA has fallen and the nominal OBJ
jective point of the British Egyptian
expedition has been reached. The
river forces Of the British Egyptian ex-
petition, pushing up the Nile from Ell
Hafir, landed force at Dongola and
occupied that place before the deryish
forces retreating from Ell Hafir
reached that point. Ell Hafr and Don
COLA are therefore in the hands of the
expedition, while the deryish forces
are somewhere between seeking a
refuge.
Yesterday afternoon the long range
firing continued between the dervishes
on the west bank of the Nile and the
expeditionary force on this side. The
Maxim guns, with their sweeping hail
of fire, did great execution in the
dervish ranks, while the field and
horse batteries never allowed the enc
my to do anything with their batteries.
Darkness put an end to the artillery
duel across the Nile water and still
ness fell upon both camps; the Nile
was one of waiting, though the silence
of the desert was once broken by
discharge from the Maxim guns from
this side of the river.
In the morning every one was up
at daybreak, anxious to know what
change in the situation had developed
during the night, and what would be
the next move, and eagerly scanning
the enemy's camp across the river.
There was no sign Of life in the
dervish works, but soon a commotion
was perceived among the boats along
the bank and native in one Of them
was discerned in the act Of waving
something, as though for signal to
this side of the river. The steamer
Dial, of the expeditionary force, there
upon proceeded to the West shore of
the river, where it was found that FL
Hafir had been
Evacuated by the Enemy
under cover of the night, and that not
a dervish fighting man was left in
sight. The detachment on the Dial
sent back to the camp on this side of
the river twenty-seven boats which
had been manned by the native resi-
dents Of Ell Hafr and loaded with a
great quantity Of grain.
The natives announced that the
enemy had departed and that Wad-
bishara, the young emir Of Dongola,
who commanded the dervishes, was
wounded in the fight. A shell from an
Egyptian battery burst in his tent, in
ficting wounds in his breast and head,
the former being severe hurt.
After the gunboats of the expedition
bad forced their way through past the
forts at Ell Hafir and had proceeded
southwark toward Dongola the der
wishes apparently perceived that FL
Hafir was no longer the place for them
and they proceeded to depart. They
buried as many Of their dead as they
had time for. The rest were prepared
with stone tied around the neck and
thrown into the Nile
News has arrived here that the
steamers and gunboats Of the expedi-
ton had reached Dongola and landed
a force, which Immediately occupied
the treasury and the grainstore, the
principal stronghold of the town. This
news was received here with delight,
as it is supposed that the enemy is
now marching Between here and Don
COLA in much hampered condition by
the reason Of the number of their
wounded and their retreat along the
river bank threatened by the steamers,
which can destroy at any moment the
food supplies stored at Dongola, if
they cannot hold that place against
the retreating forces of deryishes I'M
til land forces Of the expedition have
advanced to cooperate with them
The British loss was but five in
iured