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Show CLASH ON THE NILE. General Kitchener Hoists The I'nton Jack at Fushoda. Cairo, Sept. 215. General Kitchener, commanding the Anglo-Egyptian expedition, ex-pedition, has returned to Omdurman, having established ports at Fashoda and on the Sobat river. The troops did uo fighting except with a Dervish steamer on the way south, which was captured. Saukin, Sept. 20. The only organized organ-ized remnant of the Khalifa's army was defeated and its last stronghold, Gedarif, captured on September 22, after a a three hours' hard fight, when an Egyptian force numbering 1,300 under coinmaud of Colonel Parsons, routed 3,000 Dervishes, of whom 500 were killed. Three Egyptian officers were wounded and 37 Egyptian soldiers killed and 50 wounded. |