Show THE SOUDAN CAMPAIGN the news of the successful battles of the anglo egyptian forces in soudan minds the reading public that there Is with the victorious army a man whose lifes history is almost as wonderful as a tale from the arabian nights we refer to pasha an austrian by birth a young lieutenant went to meet gordon at khartoum and was made governor over darfur darfer at that time a strange fanaticism seized the egyptians and a cunning politician mabom at onalea ahmed proclaimed himself the messiah among the Sou danese he gathered numerous followers and commenced a campaign against the egyptians and europeans khartoum was captured and gordon murdered tried his best to hold his province and fought many battles for the khedive but finally he found himself isolated leo without hope ot of succor and had to surrender this was in 1883 he was made a slave and endured for twelve years the hardships and indig gitles his captors captora saw fit to in inflict 0 him finally he was rescued through throng the efforts of major wingate director of military intelligence egyptian army 41 and baron Held heidler ler the austrian an am 1 cassador bas at cairo it was the intelli gence brought by slaten concerning the conditions in soudan that made british resolve to send out the present expedition for the purpose of re conquering khartoum and the sur J rounding territory and also to revenge re veng the death of gordon the anglo at egyptian army has advanced slowly scowl sl owl 0 building a railroad along the route but the work of redeem lag the country 17 from the rule of the dervishes has been ao a complis hed this time there will be nomore tragedies like that in which hl gordon left lef t to his fate by the government fell a victim of dervish frenay and fanaticism |