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Osman Digna, Captive TTIE "REPUBLIC: SUNDAY. FEP.TCUATCY 11, IflOO. OSMAN DIGNA, i RROR OF THE SOUDAN, IS CAPTIVE AT LAST. Remarkable Career of the Proselyte Mohamme Who Erected a Desert Empire Under the Shadow of the Mahdfs Power. ' I i :'c-l- ml m !W,!':i "j i'ili'TlllillllllllllPlllflllP Or W, i!'i,!ii ii"''i .,; . Miii'TiTFTMrnMlMi vw Kl MPOT liy if Osman Digma at the Head ol a Dervish Army. army ctptured. It a. band of slaves In this fight. He fell back, Dur-nab- y "bel- policy coniempla'eil tho bt.iiding been slain and his whole a having by sending Gen- With IJaker and Colonel Tho Potidarcae crept up beneath the British svniTri::. For. the sitnday itcrrui-i- underrated the foe t!m. farha had really won a to Darah with about I.0n) men, and won a army to guide General Graham ar- thus afforded They Fpranc upon :! of a railway from Stiakin to Berhr. Pefere turned out that Osman Osman captured! eral Graham's against him. Ilefote hltn. ter s sent out Disna eloign be out ho rcstl!-herde- virto-v- . Ho aroc from the dead on June IS. victory over the Amaha tribesmen How tlio of the Soudan must the Englishman could take the field Tokor rived at El Teb in four hours He hai English rnnl:s and boat tlicm bark. The the culd eirritsl upon Kitch- bis UtJis ! appeared before Tamal check him. Next he returned hand-to-han- had to swept from the desert. 1'51 On that day he f have rolled white eyes whoa that news had fallen. To understand he situation the about J.OW men. Osman nigna's force caraelty of the Arab for d Bag-pa- ra their i:i the way All the with another of his innumerable armies. ener's regiments at Handnub. Tho The tribesmen cf the Saharan sands geography the region must be ktown. $.w almost wholly Soudanese. confil. t served (ra,m Iign-i- ' purpose 0man Ilgna te.d English forces and came! of Britain was breught to ln.tr 'o TTo English now inado heroic efforts to horse charged the nnd tho fellaheen of tho Egjptian fields havo Tokar is oil the Sea In tho Suakin He bewail the battlo by 'helling the advanc- vee'l The G.ttllni; guns, fell Int.i tho Innlt; lower of In following' Just ltei M( hamne-da- n. open. They hoped swept all before them. the as dl'Iodse 'he The ilort n.n keep the Suakin route never found a word in Arabic Brest caeugh country. A short distance away lies Tcb. ing oMong of British. No answe-vv- of his men. April Osman w?3 joined by Abu Glrgeh, at him vain. He viw driven from cne stroahild to do this by driving Osman before them to nt Osman Digna. Thoy liavo culkd a verdant oasis fertilized by inexhaustible made until Graham had conducted his rarnnse In the Drserl. got them. the head eif 3.0w men. y only to estati.sh a new oc. Amv after , Unfortunately, he always behind variously --MI. Abubekr. Emir. Keher. He springs. The town of El Teb bt-e- in- men ejulto around th breastworks. Then Only the Intrepid! of General Grahai British, to profound chagrin, hal .he I ut tho Tho proposed railway from Suakln to Ber- Tho their was In England's side where ho artillery averted rojt. He reformed hU brokei army wvjt lown Intu desert. tho last thorn vested by Oiman with ),'.) Arabs. He de- opened with and infantry at a - paper. were compelled to open negotiations with -o oountrj- could not be cleared. By 15J the ber remained a railway on Egypt is concerned. Lord Kitchener's work prived the once. The Soudanese st iggered under lines and charged the yelling Arabs .- hot they so lishtly under- Inhabitants of feod and water. the theater of war had transferred to jvjs- - All this time the Hannibal of tho desert the man whom had El Omdurman remained incomplete because was Th- - Engiiih rashed upon th-- ir bvjme the fire from the Engl'sh srtllier;' lsn FUbdue. an Digna receive! Their ammunitions exhausted. Osman choek. can-;aiir- His roving taken to y In thl ii r5.T InJ he aid , had continued his slave traffic Osman Disna. had been neither killed nor kept up hot artillery and enemy. that the forces of Osiian hroki In ta'a the head of his forces. a h.fantry lire. of two of his nrphewa Ahinl and Kagl land- - upon tribes friendly to the tho emissaries at captured. His p.an of campaign was perfect. Graham made goo.1 1' lv mee listc -- they had to say, but The an in off men and women. He .el to what Tl.f battle Iastel three hours, 1 English and bore their name was George Nlsbet, Guverno of the town had made up his and force"! o.mnn from Sunk 'it to I they move him an Inch. He de- Tho man's teal lo": fully 1.0'J men. the twe I the The aptlves were exported to Arabia and nt fa- !.;; d 1 iT-- hid re'for.e f.r H:s according: to the story now mind to hold out to the last. He expecte-- practical idvantae r Iig-n- a clared that lie would attaek every armed father, In killed at. I l!1 .11 neui'ded Th Mjl.dl shi tting the l.nglMi up Sa there s il.i The profits netted 0man - - terrl-he-- d. ti k the Ilild again in a few ve ks lth aftr he wife and on to Egjpt the British. The inhabitant- urr.- .Mis-hu- found within the limits of what miliar, had taken Mohumire2.in f'Il baeU t 9 Su ikin and In -- the Shera!'. proJIgioUk s.ims. Nor were the British force boy. The elder They Sjudane.se and Arabs had faileii un He rt'e-d Erkuit. territory. He was. how- wher tho latter was jet a knew the character of the ene- we-ek-s deemed his own two had intrench-- ! hlmaelT near ?Jlg-do- ff ard Blsliirleli tribes These able to put a stop to Osman's operations. married a rich man my and.they feared (.is fury. tho.'oth'r hand Graham had lost a I fth of ever, disposed to nilow- - trading within cer- Xisbet died. The widow At last the that rlty with a now army. afforded him levy after levy of re- - The deadlock dragged along until 1$S. In Digna. The fctep-fath- er Governor to yield. his army. horirs cf Alexandria Osman had He surrendered his He now demanded the surrender of vcar Colonel Kitchener, as he then tain limits. educa- The British moved upon Suakln In ovents revealcl clearly the Moham- crulf. that 11 Rave the bay hi? name, his fort and his troops surrendered their arms. These to deal Orman Digna a de- I'lnyincr Ilia On Gniue. square The advancing col'imns were like let-.- , bo'h Slnkat and Suakln, and even made ai was. determined tion and his calling. Thus the new Osman .V lllsregirdeil Miuimiidii. medan's plan of canpaln. The of Ve was Governor This really meant that the ilohammedaa a ion?, livirjjr laJd'r. Osman Ulgna de- a'tnek In this l.e was repulsed But he cisive blow. Kitchener then Mohammedan, a slave was of no Importance to 03maa I'gn IT. s S-- a would da an thing calculated to D!?na became a General Graham was dutnfounded His massacred Mi soldiers an 1 tv.o etaep-- in a Genera! of tho Red littoral He fell commander desert. tached cev'ral small forces to hatrj the men were eager le be tuat '.i-- prernote- - traffic In slavery. That enriched trader and a Hannibal of the flr-- t act was to serd uu'svipi , s to Otm.m re Kj i no: twenty miles from Suakin. upon the slave trader's camp, captured It oncoming en m laltalletfs and ira-rlu- s h por of pani '. e If " " as' Slavery In Eg pi is i.omr ally abolished. Dig'ia demanding sulnni- - Te might enter a's - Poudvnese tlylr.g Osman him. The English were far from satisfied. m I id I een e To t u '1 Mai- iff VSmri.irlitH. and sent the reality, flourishes. When the old Os- it rol their tin English won a victorv ho let tlie n - camp Their vessels patrolled the coast night and In it the ' n - the following his troor- anil ret ok liU own munl'atlon M'.bamme'i' Th- l..n;!Kh th- - e! - 1 Tlie rallitarj creratlu's Digna set- - g.irl. jwever. ier and then them fron they could not break up Osman'a man Digna di'.d tho new Osman mplv- vv Htc lerased s In tho lighting Kitchener dav. But de end to liollre H.. s it r i s!-- rro-'l- -- re r t f.. i d Tlie a from the rear country. Here he ti t'i li'ing siri, m Tl'i .V'o- - Su h was his cour- - when be 1 . - m Sai t. continued to be cap- tled In tho Berbcrcen breastw.irks In the .ni'i too i The news -- ot the sever wound which has never since pet traffic. The slaves denizen-)- , na.irl '..r !un e led t )!- - T line of man h English held hi, n .nts are "or.t'ilier-- hlie-- d lawless desert who b liter kin Tho he town Usui and exported In large numbers.
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