Show SLAUGHTER OF DERVISHES General Xitchener Explains Why the Wounded Were Killed London March 21A dispatch to Lord Crmer British diplomatic agent in Egypt embodying the reply of the sirdar General Lord Kitchener of Khartoum to questions regarding the alleged mutilation and useless slaughter slaugh-ter of Dervishes in the battle of Omdur man ba been lad before oarlament The sirdar says that the onlr wounded Dervishes killed by his troops were those who feigned death in order to f obtain ODortuntes for killing the AngloEgyptians AngloEgYDtans Whatever was done he continues was done with all possible considerations tons of humanity The sirdar justified the destruction of the tomb of the mahdi and the dispersal dis-persal of the prophets remains on the ground that if the mausoleum had been I left intact and unDrofaned it would have become the center of fanatical pi I grlmages causing endless trouble He I says he himself ordered the demolition Lord Cromer endorses the statements of Genera Klchcuer I |