| Show DERVISHES completely ROUTED driven from Om durman by the anglo egyptian forces 71 of the wild tribesmen of the desert go down becore the withering fire of maxim guns black flag ot the khalifa captured khartoum bombarded by the gunboats Gun boats on the nile london sept 4 the war correspondent of the daily telegraph with the anglo egyptian forces says khalifa abdullah with bia harem and diana hia principal general managed to escape bat ban ner and thousands of prisoners are in our bands it Is estimated that ot the enemy were elain oar total were about besides col another correspondent was wounded mr howard the new york herald correspondent was slain by a shell in Om burman the war correspondent of the daily news bays our victory waa not easily or cheaply won the dervish loss was enormous it is estimated that the killed of the enemy were not fewer than our whole force was engaged in fighting from a m until sundown instead ot waiting for ua in Om durman where they could have made a resistance that would have cost us thousands of lives they advanced to meet us the eight waa extraordinary some men in tour brigades attempted to rush our dereba with desperate KaI antry they were leed suffering huge loss conr maxim guna especially made terrible lanes in their ranks and our artillery dealt havoc in the town which waa full of women the dervish army of ia utterly broken but we are fully prepared to fight tomorrow it they wish it the standards war correspondent also pays tribute to the magnificent courage of the dervishes but adds fortunately tor us their leaders showed little orno or no wisdom in choosing a battlefield by not occupying the hill on our left front the enemy missed bis opportunity that would have left the sirdar two alternatives Hs might have either accepted the challenge or elected to make a wide detour into the desert to reach Om durman in the former casa we should have been compelled to meet the dervishes in the open in the latter case the chances of offering a prolonged resistance would have been materially increased bat the have lost none of kneir former courage and were resolved to attack us where we ethod trusting to sheer weight ot numbers and hoping to burl themselves against us with an irresistible rush describing the attempt of the horsemen to retrieve the days fortune by a final charge the correspondent spon dent says dashing across the level stretch of pebbly boil the khali fas cavalry rode madly at the stationary line ol 01 infantry our troops awaited the chare without flinching on came the dervishes but again the fire poured into them did Us deadly work men and bogrees tell thick and hardly a rider in that desperate charge escaped A large body of the infantry undismayed by the daughter could be eleu preparing to follow ahe cavalry but our field artillery and maxims descending from tha hill on which they were posted came again into action and the conflict entered a new phase the attack on one camp had been repulsed and the only question was whether the defeat of the enemy was complete it was not long before the dervishes were acen in full flight toward the right leaving their dead on the field as they fled the whole army of the khalifa was destroyed our casualties number over our losses in the when the enemy first attacked us were email con the number of the enemy our artillery and rifle fire was terribly effective tle dervishes fought well displaying a courage that would have seemed marvelous marve louB had we not known their spirit abo march to Omd nrman after the great fleat was comparatively incident int ident the sirdar with hia chief of staff gen kundle cal cingale and pasha road behind tiro compan t befi of egyptians and Sou danese who proudly cabied with them the khalifa flair the black banner which was to lead hia troops to victory aa we neared the placa tha people living in bouses the wall poured out in regiments to welcome the victore j patting through a lone street we came to the wall itself a solid piece of rough masonry there bad been no need to employ to effect a breach an entry was found near the nver and the sirdar rode into emdur i xann unopposed the city seemed save for women and eoma two score men who came to make submission and lay down their arat around the ruined tomb of the mahdi the city extends on all sides like a rabbit warren Om durman opposite khartoum on the nile nubia sept 2 by camel post to nasri the sirdar gen herbert kitchener with the Kh alifas black standard captured during the battle entered Om durman the capital of Mah at 1 thie coon at the bead of the anglo egyptian column after completely routing the dervishes and dealing a deathblow to Mab roughly our losses were while thousands of dervishes were killed and wounded last night the anglo egyptian army encamped at agaizo eight miles from Om durman the dervishes were three miles distant at dawn today tho cavalry patrolling toward Om durman discovered the enemy ad vancine to the attack in battle array chanting war sones their front consisted ot infantry and cavalry stretched out for three or tour miles counties banners fluttered over their masses and the copper and brass drums re sounded through the ranks of the savage warriors who advanced unswervingly with all thir old time ardor our infantry formed up outside the camp on the left were the first battalion northumberland tusi leera the second battalion lancashire tusi leers and the first battalion grenadier guards with the maxim battery manned by the royal irish fusi leers in our center were the first battalion warwickshire Warwick shire regiment the first battalion cameron highlanders high landers and the first battalion lincolnshire Lincoln shire regiment with maxims worked by a detachment ot the royal artillery under maj williams on our right were the Sou danese brigades commanded by gen maxwell and gen macdonald the egyptian brigades held the reserves and both flanks were supported by the maxim Nor denfeld batteries at 7 20 a m the enemy crowded the ridges above the camp and advanced steadily in enveloping formation at our artillery opened fire which was answered by tha dervish riflemen their attack developed on our left and in accordance with their traditional tactics they swept down the hillside with the design of rushing our flank but the withering fire maintained for fifteen minutes by all our lines frustrated the attempt and the dervishes balked swept toward our center upon which they concentrated a fierce attack A large force of horsemen trying to face a continuous hail of bullets from the cameron the lincoln shire regiment and the Sou danese was literally swept away leading to the with 1 drapal of the entire body whose dead strewed the field i the bravery of the Dervin bes can hardly be overestimated those who carried the flags struggled to within a hundred yards of our fighting line when the dervishes withdrew behind the ridge in front of our camp the whole force marched in echelon of battalions toward Om durman As our troops surmounted the crest adjoining the nile the Sou danese on our right came into contact with the remick who had reformed under covet of a rocky eminence and bad massed beneath the black standard oc the khalifa in order to make a supreme effort to retrieve the fortunes of the day A mass strong bore down on the Sou danese gen kitchener swung round the center and left of the Sou danese and seized the rocky eminence and the egyptians hitherto in reserve joined the firing line in ten minutes and before the dervishes could drive their attack home the flower of abe Kh alifas army was caught in a depression and within a z no of withering cross fire from three brigaded bri gadea with abe attendant artillery alie devoted strove heroically to make headway but every rush was tripped while their main body was literally inurn down by a sustained deadly croes anro defiantly abe dervishes planted their standards and died beside them their dense masses gradually melted to companies and abe companies to driblets drib lets beneath ane leaden hail finally they broke and fled leaving the field white with clad corpses like a enow drift doted spot at 1115 the sirdar ordered an advance and our whole force in line drove aba scattered remnant of the foe into the desert our cavalry cutting off their retreat to Om durman among the chief incidents ot the battle was a brilliant charge by abe twe oty first lancere under alent col martin galloping down on u detached body of the enemy they fondd the der biah massed behind and were forced to charge home against appalling odds the lancers hacked through abe moss rallied and kept the dervish horde at bay granfelt Gr enfelt nephew of gen sir francis granfelt Gr enfelt was killed four other were twenty one men were killed and twenty wounded the egyptian cavalry were in close fighting with the babara horsemen for a period the enemy captured and held a gun but it was brilliantly re taken th heroic bravery of the dervishes evoked universal admiration er time their dispersed and broken reformed and hurled themselves upon the anglo egyptians their emira conspicuously leading and spurning death even when wounded and in death agonies they raised themselves to fire a last shot among the wounded is col rhodee the correspondent of the london times and a brother of cecil rhodes gen kitchener telegraphs howard the war correspondent was killed at the taking of Om durman it is believed that the sirdar refers ta the hon hubert george lyulph howard second eon of the earl ol 01 carlisle bombarding Knar loum london sept 4 the daily telegraph issues a special edition with the following details of the movements on wednesday and thursday telegraphed from nasri this wednesday morning the anglo egyptian troops began the advance in three brigades side by side with a front a mile wide the army giving the impression of a baet square our cavalry occupied aebel jebel sheikh pail three miles ahead at 6 and an hour later oar infantry had arrived at the banks of the river which was flooded at that point fully a mile on land here the forces baited while the gun bouts proceeded the cavalry and came corps trotted forward but only a few scouts were teen under the command of abdel baki a dervish emir who fell back rapidly without a contest in a village we passed a number of charred and mutilated bodies of natives suspected of spying and killed by the dervishes at 7 the maxims fired a few rounds scattering a body of dervishes in the bush then there was a lull until noon though the cavalry and camel corps were several miles in advance the gunboats gun boats signalled signal led that dervish horsemen were moving west upon the egyptian right and the lancers on the left trotted to intercept the enemy the camel corps supporting but the dervishes slipped back to their camp in the bush a mile inland the lancers advanced through the bill passes and got within a mile of cerreri Ker reri then two officers went ahead and discovered that there were many flags in the dervish camp they were fired upon and eventually the entire force returned to sur arab inside the dereba during the afternoon the gunboats gun boats shelled the dervish camp tor several hours apparently doing much damage A number of dervishes who bad fled to the bush to escape the shells surrendered during the evening among the refugees were the sheikh of cerreri and a grandson of pasha this thursdays Thurs dayl morning in spite of a fierce rain storm which continued nil last night and until 9 today the army advanced at 5 and found cerreri deserted the lancers on the left and the cavalry and camel corps on the right advanced six miles ahead of the infantry which marched in a square the lancers got within a mile of Om durman and saw the dome of the mahals tomb mahdi tuti island and the palm trees of khartoum drawn up ia five division with a wing thrown back was the army its spears and swords glistening in the sunshine arrayed northwest cf the town in the deseret in the central division was an enormous number of banners including one of blue and one of black A number of mounted dervish ei galloped forward and our dismounted troops fired apon them bitting several and driving off the remainder two squadron of our cavalry pushed to will in yards of the enemy who then advanced our lancers and the retiring the gunboats gun boats are now thursday afternoon bombarding bombar dinc the forts at Om durman and barsoum Kar Soum only two killed cairo sept 4 gen kitchener tale graphs baying only two officers were killed in the battle grec felt of the twenty first lancers and capt caldecott granfelt Gr enfelt fell in a brilliant charge by tho twenty first lancers wh lost twenty one killed and twenty wounded gunung pie khalifa london sept 1 the war office has received the following dispatch from gen kitchener dated saturday evening the remnant of the Kh alifas forces has surrendered and I 1 have now a very large number of prisoners on my bands our cavalry and are still pursuing the khalifa and his chiefs who with only about fighting meu are apparently making tor kordovan Kor dofan the left bank of the white nile is BO difficult of approach owing to the overflow and thick buah that the gunboats gun boats cannot effect a landing I 1 therefore can only rely upon tha cavalry tl capture him 1 I visited khartoum today the town is a complete druio but the lower portions show some of the principal bouges still standing the people are naturally delighted to tee us so far as I 1 can see at present khartoum is the bast position Om durman is very ex and the stench there ie unbearable have therefore moved the troops down to chor Sk ambat where we now are in a good camp oa the river all the british wounded will descend the river with dispatch there are no cases that cause grave anxiety advance on Om durman L adon sept 5 the special correspondent spon dent of the times with the anglo egyptian forces telegraphs as follows the advance toward Onn duram was a magnificent panorama our whole front was covered by the english and egyptian cavalry and camel corps spread out like a buzo fan oar miles in advance ana a front of three the gunboats gun boats melik sultan and sheikh steamed in single file their decks cleared for action the british division advanced along the river bank then came the egyptian force in battle formation the sirdar and bis staff rid ing in the center gen kitchener being easily distinguishable in white everyone else being in khaki liter the correspondent says the Om durman forts replied incessantly but they bad no chance against the quick firing guns of our enn boate no better amphitheater could possibly be found for an engagement the plain smooth land stretching to the south is perfect for cavalry and artillery oa the right are low bills and on the left the nile and a hooded marshy country for miles eastward ahead to the right island and emdur man the mabris tomb rising white above the interminable line of brown mod houses in the center of the town |
