Show TUDDOrtN FIOHTCftS OF NILE Toble hood foe the Iprdlln Up the llltr There li trouble ahead for the expedition ex-pedition up the Nile It the dervishes have become good riflemen M a cable dispatch from London report on the authority of a correspondent of the Army and Navy Gazette According to this correspondent the dervishes can now deliver a deadly rifle fire which will enable them to combine lluropenn tactics with formidable onset of cavalry cav-alry and ipcarimen In the old style says the llotton Herald Ho adds thAt the Ilrlllih tactics of forming tquarcj and awaiting Ibo shock of balllo will not longer answer attains the Mali dliti and If persisted In will result In rout and ruin In tho stubborn fighting between tho Hrltlth nnd Mahdltt during tho expeditions ex-peditions of 1881 and 1885 tho square WAIl n favorite formation with the Ilrlllih who met In this way the fiery charge of the dervishes at Tnrnnl and Abuu Klea Such lactic were sound enough under the military condition then existing ai the tribe had few rifles and little skill with Hill weapon Thus solid formations which would have crumbled to pieces under fire offered of-fered tho loot means ot meeting Iho desperate rush of the Soudanese pear men How formidable these charge were Was shown at the battle of Tamil where the lladendowo crushed In the face of n Ilrlllih square raptured several galling gum and forced the lllick Watch ono of the toughest fighting regiment In the Brit lh service to give gniutid We Mid nt the lime that If tile Arab ever attained slilll u4 marksmen so that their rifle Are would match the excellence ex-cellence of their Spear work the Hrll lah I would have to give up tile Idea of lighting In square and faro Iho charges of the Irlbetnien In open order or-der If an the correspondent of tho Army and Navy Gaaetlv asserts tho dervlhi are now able to combine firearms fire-arms effectively with the cold steel hue Anglo itgypllnn troops hnvo n far mart formidable lank Infore them In their present Invasion of the Soudnn ban hlr Gerald Graham and Hlr Herbert Her-bert Stewart had to drat with In the rxiedllloni of 1881 and 168G |