Show DERVISH VICTORY + Reported Annihilation of a Battalion I < r of Egyptians + ANOTHER GREAT BATTLE 4 REINFORCEMENTS ARE BEING SCURRIED TO THE SCENE + Dervishes Under Emir Fedil Defeated the Egyptian Forces How the I Czar Proposes to Promote Peace By Prohibiting the Use of New InventionsIslands For Sale + I London Jan 16The Morning Leader publishes the following dispatch from Cjdro Rumors are in circulation hero that on Dec 28 the Dervishes under Emir Fedil on the Blue Nile defeated the I Egyptian forces the Tenth Soudanese battalion bein entirely destroyed It is reported that reinforcements are being hurried up to the scene and that another battle is imminent According to a dispatch from Cairo on Jan 5 Colonel Lewis with a Soudanese regiment and a detachment of Irregular troops attacked Fedil the last remaining formidable Dervish chief while he was crossing the Blue Nile on Dec 26 at the cataract south of Rosclio storming the island on which Fedil took up his position posi-tion and capturing 1500 Dervishes Fedil however escaped with 300 followers CZARS PEACE PROGRAMME Proposes to Prohibit the Use of New Inventions London Jan 16Tho St Petersburg correspondent of the Times who confirms Fridays statement by the Vienna correspondent corres-pondent of the Standard as to the issuance issu-ance of a circular from St Petersburg to the powers embodying a programme to be considered at the proposed conference on the limitation of armaments asserts that the suggested bases of discussion are given with great detail He cites for example ex-ample the prohibition of employment of new inventions of the use of explosives submarine vessels and the practice of ramming vessels The programme also proposes he says a discussion of the avoidance of war by recourse to arbitration arbitra-tion wherever possible |