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battalion Cameron highlanders and the
First battalion Lincolnshire regiment, with
Maxims worked by detachment Of the
Royal artillery, under Maj. William. On
our right were the Soudanese brigades,
commanded by Gen. Maxwell and Gen. Mo
Donald The Egyptian brigades held the
reserves, and both TANKS were supported
by the Maxim Nordenfeldt batteries.
The Battle Begins.
"At 7:20 a. m. the enemy crowded the
ridges above the camp and advanced
steadily In enveloping formation. AT 7:4O
our artillery opened fire, which was an
swered by the dervish riflemen. Their at
tack developed on our left, and in accord
anoe with their traditional tactics they
swept down the hillside with the design
Of rushing our flank. But the whitening
fire maintained for 15 minutes by all our
line frustrated the attempt, and the der
wishes baked and swept toward our CEN
ter, upon which they concentrated fierce
attack. A large force of horsemen, trying
to face continuous hail of bullets from
the Cameron highlanders, the Lincolnshire
regiment and the Soudanese, was literally
swept away, leading to the withdrawal Of
the entire body, whose dead strewed the
field.
Among the chief incidents Of the battle
was q brilliant charge by the Twenty-flrst
lancers under Lieut.. Col. Martin. CAL
Looping down on a detached body of the
enemy, they found the Dervish swords,
men massed behind, and were forced to
charge home against appalling odds. The
lancers hacked through the mass, rallied
and kept the Dervish horde at bay. Lieut..
Grenfell. nephew Of Gen. Sir Francis
Graen, was killed; four other officers We're
wounded q men were killed and 20
wounded.
Bravery of the Dervishes.
The heroic bravery of the Dervishes
evoked universal admiration. Time after
time their dispersed and broken forces
reformed and hurled themselves upon the
Anglo Egyptians, their emirs conspicuous
ly leading and spurning death. Even when
wounded and in death agonies they raised
themselves to fire last shot. Among the
wounded is Col. Rhodes, the correspondent
of the London Times and brother of Ctcil
Rhodes"
when the Dervlshes withdrew behind
the ridge in front of their camp, the whole
force marched In echelon of battalions to-
ward Omdurman. As our troops sur
mounted the crest adjoining the Nile, the
Soudanese on our right came into contact
with the enemy. who had reformed under
cover of rocky emincnce and had massed
beneath the black standard of the khalifa.
in order to make q supreme effort to re-
trieve the fortunes of the day. A mass
1900 strong, bore down on the Soudanese
Gen. HllcEGUNT uII5 IOuilu tIle center
and left of the Soudanese and seized the
rocky eminence, and the Egyptians hith-
erto in reserve. Joined the firing line in ten
minutes, and before the Dervisaes could
drive their attack home
Driven Into the Desert.
1.-THE flower of the khaiifa's army was
caught in depression. and within a
zone of whitening cross fire from three
Drlgades, with the attendant artillery
The devoted mahdists strove heroically to
make Roadway. but every rush was
stopped while their main body was lit
orally nown down by sustained deadly
cross fire. Defiantly the Dervishes planted
their standards and died beside them,
Their dense masses gradually melted to
companies and the companies TO driblets
beneath the leaden hail. Finally they
broke and fled, leaving the field white with
jibbah-cad corpses. like a snow-drift dot
ted meadows AT ll:15 the sirdar ordered
an advance, and, our whole force in line,
drove the scattered remnant of the foe into
the desert. our cavalry cutting off their
retreat 10 Oridurman.
Herr Earl Nelife Id, who is referred
to in thu foregoing dispatch from
Cairo as rescue1 unframed from the
deryishes, fell into the hands of the