The age-herald., 1898-09-06
OMDURMAN IN v|CTORS' HANDS British aud Egyptian Flag Hoist
 ed Over the PaIa SAVAGE WARRIORS .sS. BRAVE z.y With Beating of 5 and Flags Waving They Sped to Death. CHARGE OF THE HANGERS Six Hundred Ran Into an Ambush of 5000 of the Savages-English-
 Egyptian Casualties 500
 Many Wounded.

London, September 5.-The war office re- ceived this evening the following dispatch, dated at Omdurman yesterday from the sirdar, General Sir Herbert Kitchener:
 This morning the ritish and Egyptian flags were hoisted with due ceremony up- on the walls of the Saraya (the palace) in Khartoum.
 "All the British wounded have left for Abadia in barges lowed by steamers. I saw them before leaving. They were all doing well and were comfortable.
 'The cavalry sent in pursuit of the Khal- fla were compelled to abandon the attempt owing to the exhaustion of the horses, but 1 have ordered camel squads to continue the pursuit.
 Omdurman, Opposite Khartoum, on the Nile, Nubia, September 2, by Camel Riders to Nasri-The sirdar, General Sir Herbert
 Kitchener, with the Khahfa's black stand ard, captured during the battle, entered Omdurman, the capital of MahdisIn, at I o'clock this afternoon at the head of the Anglo Egyptian column after completely routing the dervishes and dealing a death blow to Mahdism
 Roughly estimated our losses were 200 while thousands of the dervishes were killed wounded.
 Last night the Anglo-Egyptian army en- camped at Agazia, eight miles from Om- durman. The dervishes were three miles distant At dawn today our cavalry pa- trolling toward omdurman, discovered the enemy advancing to the attack in battle array, chanting war songs. Their front consisted of infantry and cavalry, stretched out for three or four miles. Countless ban mo H,ttt I,a;, copper and brass drums resounded through. the serred ranks of the savage warriors, Who advanced unwaveringly, with all their old time ardor.
 The Infantry Forms
 Our infantry formed up outside the camp. On the left were the First Battalion North umberland Fusileers and the First Battal- ion Grenaoier Guards, wirn the Maxim Bat tery, named by the Royal Irish Fusileers. In our center were the First Cameron High flanders and the First Battalion Lincoln- shire regiment with Maxlms worked by a detachment of the Royal artillery, under MaJor !" iiilams. On our right were the Sou dahese prigades commanded by General MaXWeH and General Mcdonald The lhsypuan brlgades held the reserves. and poth Hanks were supported by the Maxim Nordenfet batteries.
 AL ':zV o'clock m the morning the enem,, crowded the ridges above the camp and ao- Vanced steadily in enveoping formation. At "4o o'clock our artillery opened fire. which was answered by the derylsb rife. men.
 Their attack developed on our left and in accordance with their traditional tactics thaxy lo,, sign of rushing our flank. But the wIther Ing fire maintained for fifteen minutes by all our line frustrated the attempt, and the dervishers baked and swept toward our center, upon which they concentrated A. fierce attack. large force of horsemen. trying to face a continuous hail of bullets from the Cameron Highlanders, the Lin regiment and the Soudanese. was literally swept away, leading to the of the entire body whose dead strewed the field.
 Dervishes Were Game
 The bravery of the dervishes can hardly be overstated Those who carried the flags to within a few hundred wards of our fighting line, while the mounted Emirs absolutely threw their lives away in bold charges
 When the dervishes withdrew behind the ridge in front of their camp the whole force marched in echelon of battalions toward 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 eminence and had beneath the black standard af the f<halifa, in order to make supreme effort to retrieve the fortunes of the day. mass 1000 strong, bore down on the soudanese. Gen. Kitchener swung around the center and left of the Soudanese and seized the rocky eminence, and the Egyptians, hith-
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