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Show BERLIN STORY NOT CONFIRMED Copies of Sudan Times Make No Mention of Uprising of Dervishes in November. REPORT IS FALSE ; American Missionary, Who Recently Returned From Egypt, Says Country Is Absolutely Quiet. . New York, March 19 Issue of the Sudan Times, published at Khartum as late February 11 which have reached this city, contain nothing to confirm the reports received by wireless wire-less telegraph from Berlin yesterday respecting the uprising of Dervishes and their successes in the Khartum and Nubia regions The Berlin dispatches said that an uprising of the Senuissi tribesmen occurred oc-curred in November. The Sudan Times, on February 11 contains the following official report: "Sheikh Sidi Ahmed. Grand Senuia-ei. Senuia-ei. in conversation with a British official, of-ficial, sxpiessed great annoyance that certain poople had spread baseless reports re-ports in regard to his intentions and thus threw doubt on his pledged word of friendship to Egypt and hia government govern-ment "Suleiman El Baruni, the Tripoli agitator, and others, who were discovered discov-ered intriguing against Egypt, have been arrested by the Senuissi and are kept under strict guard." American Refutes Wireless Story. Des Moines, la., March 19. No uprising up-rising among the Dervishes of Egypt ian Sudan had occurred up to December Decem-ber 27 last, according to tbe Rev D. S. Oyler of Atlantic, la., a missionary mission-ary of the United Presbyterian church who left his mission at Boleib Hill, about fifty miles from Fashoda on that date. This was the statement of Mr Oyler over long distance telephone tele-phone to the Associated Press today. General Mawley Not Killed. He declared that the report that a British general named Hav ley and his command had been k'lk-d by Dervishes near Fashoda on December 13. was absolutely false. Mr. Oyler, who is away from Egypt on a year's leave of absence, said that Avheu he passed tbrougli Fashoda on his way to Khartum the country was quiet, and the natives peaceful "If there had beeu any uprising, I am certain I would have heard of it," he declared. "I never heard of a British Brit-ish general named Hawley at Fashoda, though of course there might hav been one some place in Egypt. I had a large acquaintance in that section, however, having spent more than five years in mission work there. The government station at Tausikia Is only five miles from Boleib Hill and I knew all of the officials there." Mr Oyler said that he enjoyed a "hearty laugh" when he read yester aay's report of the supposed uprising of the Dervishes. |