Show THE TAKING OF KHARTOUM early in the morning a dull hollow booming rIveT ri ways like the dropping of spaded earth on coffin lids an jounced noun ced to the Sir dars army that mhd gunboats gun boats had opened the ball and were bombarding the forts shortly thereafter the enemy taking the initiative on the land side attacked the british camp the dervishes flung themselves into the blood and raff of battle with a bravery that was simply the old wolf the khalifa had fight in MIA yet despite his reverses into a withering zone ione of fire which no europeans troop would have faced up the thin red lines of the spitting lee edfords and martinis the yelling demons charged again and again their white robed figures fluttering leaping dropping in the smoke and spume of battle but their valor availed them nothing they met fighting men that outfought them blind courage was pitted against iraln 1 ing and the training was the better when the dervishes finally retreated they left thousands of their dead piled up to be trampled upon by the steadily advancing british but the ad alvanas adva vanas note was hotly contested toward emdur t man the battle raged furiously ati As the tide of fighting ebbed and flowed ac the british front the ithe enemy massed QU OK the right for a final desperate charge on the flank the sirdar swung hia army into position and rec received elVed them with a pointblank point blank hall hail oil of bullets thai edt cut them up it i ghastly furrows and bowled the them mever over among the rocks like struck rabbits the khalifa retreated within Om durman iti in the afternoon the british again advanced upon tb the walls of the city here the Dervis dervishes hou made their last hopeless stand hudd hud died in sporadic groups and here t was that the picturesque egyptian abbi diers fighting against their own blood blo ad and led by english officers swept there thera up like e haff chaff on a barn floor the sto story of the plunging charge of the twenty first lancers through a massed bodycot the enemy coming through blood soaked and sorely diminished in numbers only to promptly form uw up 1 boac W the ride back by the same cr crimson channel of death reads like an aeple f and seems to have been as a a use lessan ap the charge of the light brigade at bal aj klava y there Is little more to tell the khalifa fled an outlaw toward ko traveling incognito like the prince of bagdad but accompanied by a handful of chiefs and fighting men to guard hla his worthless life through a ae by his own hand and the british entered the big f alien falle nelty city the iw bew khartoum was to in possession of the glish and the sirdar general sir herft bert Kitch kitchener erter jhb who will soon have im 9 alphabet attached to his hie name hoisted hoist the and flags ovier thae palace where they flutter today hodiw f tea above a maze of narrow streets Z find a multitude of adobe houses bouses the som flom f ber standard of khalifa abdullah tra trails in the dust it Is now but a trophy of war in the soudan there are now man good dervishes for they lie ile tin thousands Om dunnan durman and khartoum have done with for foa a abu wallar until another prophet shall ailse in an the desert and england shall have her work cut out for her again colliere weekly |