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Show DERVISHES ARE ON THEWARPATH Whole of Sudan, Including Khartum, and Parts of Nubia in Their Hands. TRIBESMEN IN ARMS English General Goes Against Forty Thousand Africans With Six Thousand Troops. Berlin, March 18, by wireless to Say-ville. Say-ville. A German merchant, who re-centlv re-centlv has returned from Egypt, is authority for the declaration that the whole of the Sudan including Khartum, Khar-tum, and also parts of Nubia are In possession of the dervishes The statements of this traveler are published in the Vossiscbe Zeitung. Me describes also an engagement near FsshodS last December in which Gen jeral Hawley of the British army, and la number of other officers, together I with almost 200u men lose their lives. The merchant in question relates 3 story of the allegd uprising of the Senulssl tribesmen In November. He declared that they destroyed an Australian Aus-tralian camp near the pyramids on i November 19. killing 200 Australians land capturing guns and provisions Later In large force, not less than S0.-000, S0.-000, they overflowed the entire pro incp of Fayum and destroyed all railroads rail-roads includinc ihe Cairo Assuan line December l they destroyed the Alexandria-Cairo railroad near Damanhur. Thousands of tribesmen responded to the appeal of the Dervishes and on December 13, forty thousand of them marched in the direction of Fa-shoda, Fa-shoda, on the White Nile, where General Gen-eral Hawley opposed them with 6000 troops Of the men under Hawley all the native soldiers deserted to the Dervishes leaving him with only 2000 men. Most of this contingent as killed and General Hawley and his officers fell. Nabur -El-As, commanding the Dervishes, Der-vishes, had all his prisoners decapitated decapita-ted Native Chiefs tn Arms. As a result of this victory all the native chiefs joined the Dervishes who. on January 1, took possession of the important military post at Nas-er in the district of Sennaar. This merchant declares furthermore that the Detrishes destroyed all the telegraph lines In lower Egypt. No word of the conquest of the Soudan has been allowed to leak out. nn |