The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-04-09
BRILLIANT BATTLE FOUGHT
FORGE ROUTES
 THE DERYISHEs.

It is Estima ated That the Enemy Lost .OOO
 Men-7Mahoumet is Captured- Os,nan
 Digma Escapes by Fleeing British and
 Egyptian Troops Cheer Each Other
 British Forces Numbered l3 3,0o0, the
 Enemy's 19,OoO.
 Cairo, April S.-Details of the defeat
 of the Dervishes show that the Anglo
 Egyptian force, after a night march.
 arrived at dawn before the enemyrs
 camp. When the trenches of the der-
 wishes had been bombarded the whole
 Anglo Egyptian force made brilliant
 rush for the Zariba and the trenches,
 Atbara Camp, Nubia, April S--The
 Sirdars force numbered 13O00 men with
 twentyfour guns under Colonel Long,
 and twelve maxims The enemy left
 Shendy with 19,0OO men, but they have
 suffered a, good deal from assertion
 since The enemy was at first practi-
 cally concealed underground in a
 strong zariba running around the whole
 position. They left yesterdays camp
 at p. m. and bivouacked in the desert.
 They reached Mahoumed's position at
 6 a. m. to-day. The enemy was aware
 of their approach. After an hour of
 heavy bombardment the brigades were
 formed up and carried the position at
 the point of the bayonet under 8 tre-
 mendous fire from the enemy.
 During the whole admirable bom- bardment by Conone1 Long not sim gle Dervish was visible. The cavalry
 was now in full pursuit and nothing
 could have been finer than the behav- for of the troops. Mahoumet was cap- tured by the Tenth Soudanese battai- ion. He was underground the whole time his men were fighting. Osnan Digma fled as usual The prisoners
 say that Mahoumet's force was desert- ing in large numbers before the battle. The Femins guns, baggage, animals and standards were captured. Our loss would have been much heavier if the enemy had not fired high. This
 will be called the battle of Atbara. Later-The British and Egyptian troops are still cheering each other this evening. Late last night the Sidars re- ceived orders saying that every man
 must fight and remember God. Colonel Murray had his horse shot under him and was wounded in the arrn The enemy behaved with the greatest brav- ho c,exy y<>e,k | fly by the bombardment before the ad- | vance. Some of the enemy tried to break across the river at an early stage but were beaten back by the Dervish horsemen. The rockets under Captain l Beatty set the enennys camp on fire in many places The enemy were in s deep trenches in rows behind the trees. l Bishari Bardi fell at the first fire. l The authorities call to-day's battle | the most brilliant battle ever fought in | the Soudan, everything having been carried straight through without hitch or check. While the position was l shelled by the Maxim Nordenfeldts and 1 Shrapnells the Dervishes hardly att | tempted to reply. Nothing was visible l in front of the position except a soli- | tary wobbling camel, but in the | trenches the large number of mangled Dervishes and camels proved the ter- 1 rife effect of the fire. Inside the Siber- | iria there was more destruction. | have been all over the Dervishes' posi- | tion and estimate their dead at more | than 1000. Our troops observed fun eral in silence on nearing the Siberiria. l No smoking was permitted. Egyptians, Soudanese and British Stroye to bfs l first in the glorious race and to be first
 in the attack. As usual several brig- ades claim the honor.