Warren sheaf., 1899-11-30
HE FALLS IN BATTLE.
The Khalifa, scourge Of the Sou
dan, Is Killed.
The DERVISH ARMY CUT TO PIECES.
All Lenders Are Slain Except Osmnn
Digna, Who Escapes Kitchener
Declares the soudan OPEN
End of a Long War.

Cairo, Nov 27-Lord Cromer, the
British minister here, has received the
following dispatch from Gen. Kitch-
ener:
s.rWingate's force caught up with khalifa's
force seven miles southwest of Godid and
attacked it. After sharp fight he took his
position. The khalifa, who was surround
ed by a bodyguard of emirs, was killed,
and all the principal emirs were killed or
captured, except Osman Digna, who es-
capped"
The dervishes were utterly defeated,
their whole camp was taken and thou
sands surrendered. A large number
of women, children and cattle also fell
into the hands of the Anglo-Egyptian
Reported by the Sirdar.
Gen. Kitchener also wires:
'Wingate's Arab scouts located the
khalifa's position at Omdebrikas. Our
force marched from Gedil in the moon
light and frequently had to cut its way
through the bush.l It arrived before dawn
on rising ground, overlooking the camp,
which was hidden in the. trees We heard
their drums and horns before dawn, and
at Sis the dervishes attacked. Our guns
| opened fire, and soon the action became
general. Half an hour later the whole
wish position for over two miles till the
| camp was reached. The mounted troops
! pursued and captured most of the fugi-
tives. The khalifa, with most of his men,
and the emir's bodyguard made a gallant
stand. Among the emirs killed were the
khalifa's two brothers and the mahdis
son. Osman Digna left Immediately after
the firing began and is probably concealed
somewhere in the vicinity. I hope eventual
ly to get him We took the entire dervish
camp. All the dervishes not killed surren-
dered.
Soudan Is Now Open.
IT cannot speak too highly of the excel
| lent behavior of the troops and their
Endurance during the long, tedious marches
preceding the final action. From four
O'Clock in the morning of November q till
| five o'clock in the morning of November
"a they marched 60 miles and fought two
decisive actions. The Soudan may now be
Edeclared open.''
German Journals Rejoice.
Berlin. Nov. 27-The German news
papers give an almost fattering recep-
Elton to the news of the British victory
in the Soudan. titi3
Culmination of n Long War.
IEY [The story of the war in the Soudan is
that of a long and bloody strife of civiliza-
ton against 3 cruel, barbarous and re-
/ Isligiously fanatical black race. In the early
! '70s the atrocities of the Turkish traders
in the Soudan compelled Egypt, then de-
| pendent upon Turkey, to call upon England
! for help. Chinese Gordon was sent as
| governor general of the Soudan in 1874.
| The Turks were driven from the scene,
Taxation was satisfactorily arranged, but
| the Soudanese mind was impregnated with
desire for revenge for the wrongs suffered
in slavery. Mohammed Achmet, calling
| himself Gel Mahdi," took advantage of
| the diScOntent nrea che6 dalivara ond
assembled hordes of frenzied dervishes de-
| termined to withstand the British. Cor
| don resigned in 1877. In 1883 10000 mixed
Egyptian and English troops under Hicks
Pasha were annihilated on an expedition
| into the desert from Khartoum. Other
| expeditions met similar fate. England
was dumfounded.~ Gen. Gordon, prevailed
| upon to try again, returned to Khartoum,
| only to meet tragic death. Sir Francis
| Grenfell acted as commanding general
| from 1857 to 1S92-yearS which saw the
siege of Suakim by the Soudanese and
the engagements of Gamaizah and Toski,
| in the latter Of which Grenfell broke the
advance of the dervishes toward Egypt
In these engagements was young officer
| of engineers, who in 1892 was given the
! command as sirdar. It was Kitchener.
! Here he began that slow, sure, resistless
march along the Nile which resulted in
| the terrible overthrow of the black hosts
at Omdurman and the avenging of Gordon,
September 4, 1898. The dervish forces were
|; cut to pieces, but the crafty khalifa, with
| many of his enirs and several thousand
followers, escaped. Since that time an
| Anglo-Egyptian army has kept up re-
|Slentless pursuit, the climax of which has
lzjust been reached. Whether Osman Digna,
| on whose shoulders will naturally fall the
khalifa's mantle, will again attempt to rally
| the followers of the black flag remains to
be seen.l ...... II