Show THE 1111 ENGLISH EVACUATE il 1 gabat and retreat to corti to co concen acell trite all available forces by western asad aress to the ll herald erald brov LONDON Nr ov feb IS 18 reports ts froidl 1 roni abu klea dated the lie evening of the lath at detate ate that gen buller announced his intention to evacuate his position near giniat and withdraw his ilia force to abu klea which is a better strategic position after rendering ren derine gordons two steamers useless by remo removing ying the machinery the whole for force cc started on the tile morning of tho the dinst across the desert and arrived at abu klea the next day without firing a shot the men are cheerful they prefer walking to camel riding the tile reason for I 1 the lie abandonment of bubat was the advance made by tho the mahdi with men from Om durman toward bubat and a retreat was ordered when the main body of the tile arabs was thirty miles off but an advance guard of or e WO men with five cannon was within seven miles of the british limesand lines line sand and gen Geo buller gadless had less than 2000 2 men all told the arabs massed in and around did not notice this movement for several hours after bubat had been deserted tho the british will to gandul wells and may possibly continue their retreat to corti 1 in order to concentrate the force there under command of gen wolseley Wol selcy for a fresh advance lurd lord charles beresford displaced the machinery of the steamers in such buell a way as to make it impossible for el mu adis troops to use them although leaving them capable of being repaired when the british return the total force at abu klea including egyptians and Sou danese now amounts to men with camel elp tha water supply ia is not sufficient for the men and camels it is believed gen butler is awaiting orders to know whether to retire fo to gandul or advance to berber and join gen Bracken burys forces it isid ia said the is traveling in state with from to followers toward The force gen talbot encountered was an advanced detachment on the dinst the with his arm army y w nasr ag twenty miles from bubat and and was marching slowly it is estimated that the rebels lost eighty men during the talbot skirmish LONDON feb 18 great greit anxiety is felt it at the war office about general bullers Buller 8 force at bubat the murdis reinforcements sent to will increase the force there to men the tile rebels haye have ten long range guns and general buller has no heavy guns at all KOHT feb 18 natives report a dangerous cataract developed in the bile nile between berber and chendy which is likely to prevent navigation of the river until july the secured all gen gordons papers and paper money and is cashing the latter to obtain the tile needful funds to continue the warfare Brit british ieli officers and men are eagerly buying up these notes and also the leaden medals struck off at khartoum which fetch their weight in gold aa ai mementoes of gen gordon A document is published that puri pur ports to have been written by an n emissary of the it says in in effect that the idea of peace deace is agree i aballe to the mahdi provided that it will be to the tile advantage of thellus the mus the mahdi considers himself bound to follow in the footsteps I 1 who frequently made treaties of peace with christians and other h e infidels nf idels tho document warns 0 an england gl r n d not to compel a general moslem ri rising thua u opening ng the gates to a flood which would over overwhelm the human race kontz feb 18 eighty canadian voyageurs voya geurs remain at corti for further service in soudan all the officers offered to remain until the end of the campaign and tho the offers of 0 three of them Dennison Kennedy and neilson were accepted QUEEN queenston STOw x feb 18 the canadian vOya voyageurs geurs speak disparagingly of the tile boats used by lord expedition in itt the journey up the nile aud declare tile they are decidedly too frail for suc such h service iee in baill pulling them over the cataracts it frequently happened that their stems sterns would be torn out ont and slid during the ascent of the river thirty boats were A ere damaged so as to bo be no longer fit tit for use ten v voy OY of the party were drowned in the nile two died of fever and two wore were killed midway in eg egypt agypt the canadians complain of the tile severe heat of the clit climate nate of soudan and say they suffered a gre great at deal with sore eyes and blisters bli stera they speak in grateful terms of the manner in which they were treated by the british officers |