Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-09-26
ENGLAND AT FASHODA
Kitchener, However, Finds the
French There Ahead of Him
Under Maj. Marchand.
LAFTEE GETS ORDERS TO LEAVE,

Which He Declines. and the Matter Is Re-
ferred to the Observation-Disclosures Flag
Hoisted aud Guard Left to See That It
Stays-DisquietinS Reports from China
EMPEROR said To BE Dead and the
Country in Russia's Hands
Cairo. Sept. 26.-General Kitchener,
commanding the Angro- Egyptian ex-
| petition, has returned to Omdurman,
having established posts at Fashoda
| and on the Sobat river. The troops did
no fighting except with a dervish steam
er or the way south. which was cap
tured.
Suakixn. Sept. 2e.-The only organized
remnant of the khalifa's army was de-
feated and its last stronghold. Gedarif.
captured on Sept. %. after three hours
hard fighting, when an Egyptian force
numbering 1,Soo under command of Col.
Parsons routed 5000 dervishes of whom
800 We're killed Three Egyptian officers
were wounded and thirty Egyp-
tian soldiers killed and fifty-nine
wounded.
Found the French at Fashoda-
London. Sept. 26.-The Daily Tele-
graphs Cairo correspondent telegraphS
this: General Kitchener found the
French at Fashoda. He notified Major
Marchand that he had express instruc-
lions that the territory was British and
that the French must retire, and offered
them passage to Cairo Major Marchand
absolutely declined to retire unless or
dered to so by his government. No
fighting occurred. Major Marchand was
given clearly TO understand that the
British insisted upon their claims, and
the rest has been left to be settled by
diplomacy between the respective gov
srnments. Gneral Kitchener sent a
long official dispatch TO London. hoisted
the Union Jack and the Egyptian en-
sign, and left as garrison the Elev-
enth and Thirteenth Soudanese battal-
ions and the Cameron Hdghlanders to
protect the British flag. Colonel Jack
SON commands the garrison"
London. Sent. 26.-The Cairo CORE
spendent OF The Times says it is GER
tain that there are no Abyssinian troops
on the Upper Nile.
Chinese Emperor Reported Dying.
London, Sept. 26.-The Pekin CORE
spondent of The Daily Mail says: The
head eunuch at the palace Informs me
that the emperor is seriously indisposed.
and that his death is not unlikely
The Daily Telegraphs Hong Kong
correspondent, wiring yesterday, says:
Although there is no positive confirm
alton, all the evidence tends to the con-
VictiOn that the emperor is DEAD
private Dispatch says he died on Sept.
q, directly he issued the edict giving
the dowager the regency. Nobody
doubts that Yang and Chang Yen HOon.
who was minister at Washingtonin 1926,
are both innocent Of the charge of poi
sCning the emperor"
British Protesting Accused Man.
Shanghai Sept. 26.-It is reported that
Kang Yuwei, the Cantonese refcrRner
who is accused by the dowager empress
of being implicated in designs on the
emperors life, and who recently fed
from PelIin. arrived at Woo-Sung, near
here, Saturday, and took refFge on
board n British gunboat.
London. Sept. ga special dispatch
from Shanghai says that Rang Yuweis
brother has been arrested in Pekin and
condemned to- death. The dispatch also
says that Sir Claude Macdonald, the
British minister. gave instructions that
Kang Yuwei should be protected from
arrest The British consulate holds his
baggage and documents referring to
state secrets. The Russians are in
censed at the latter fact, and it is re-
ported that Russia has offered the dow
ager empress the services of 10000
troops from Port Arthur to keep order
in Pekin If necessary. 1t is stated that
the British fleet in Chinese waters has
been divided between TIA Ku and Shang-
hal Kvan under orders to intercept
Russian transports in the event of an
attempt to land troops.