The Archive · 1897

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) INDIA, THE SOUDAN AND GREECE.

No very exciting news has arrived from India during the past week, and generally more hopeful spirit prevails as to the possibility of an early restoration of peace on the border, From Egypt, too, we have had encouraging news, Berber has been occupied without a struggle, and another tract of country has thus been rescued from the blighting sway of the Khalifa. Experts, howerer, continue to warn us that in spite of these signs of weakness on the part of the Derrishes, we have a heavy task to accomplish before the whole of tke Soudan has been recaptured for and that well as the Egyptian forces have acquitted themselves, it is only by the

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