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Rent-r's Agency has received additional deta of the expedition Inte'y mtcstaken by Colonel Mahon, Deputy Governor" General of the Soudan, "gainst a new Mahdi who had arisen' in KI Obeid. Colonel Mahon's operations were planned and carried out so quickly that the affair attracted but little attention at the time, but it has since transpired that what would undoubtedly have proved a very serious moveuient, and what had already secured many powerful adherents, was nipped in the bud by the admirable' promptitude of the Anglo-Egyptian Government, with the result that tve false Mahdi was captured, tried, and hanged, and his principal adherents imprison Colonel Mahon had but just returned to Khartoum from El Obeid, wu his way to Enyland, when news came that Mahomed Amin had proclaimed himself as Mahdi among the Tayalla Mountain ordofan, Realising the dangerous po: Dilities of such a movement, @ force of two hundred cavalry was drawn from Khartoum Nile, orders at the same tin bei g sent to dispatched by steamer up the White El Obeid for two hundred infantry, with two Maxims, to meet Colonel Mahon and cavalry near T'wgalla After proceed-for tw hundred miles up the White Nils, the Khartoum Force disembarked at Fache Showe, and marched in " Southwesterly direction towards Tagalla. The ores accomplished a rapid and trying dred miles over desert J, which was rendered more difficult to the heavy rains. Five days after Jeaving the river, Colonel Mahon heard that the Mahdi was in " certain village, and, after x forced night march, the troops surrounded the fanatic's position at, break. There was some desultory fir the Mahdi s} realised that he was surrounded, and gave Colonel Mahon, accompanied by the local Sheikhs, then went up to the village, whereupon the Mahdi came out and ssu rendered. He proved himself to be a m of grew intelligence, who had twice made the pilgrimage to Mecca, from which city he ind just returned. He was forty yenrs of age, and x native of Tunis. It was found that he had collected a large following, but that the majority had deserted on the previous days, having no doubt heard of the measures taken by the authorities before the tale Mahdi hnd had sufficient opportunity to convince them of his sacred.
i He had b-en most energetic in jis propaganda, and it is estimated that, had he been left alone for another month, he would have hud all the pele of that part of the country with him. Letters Were found from most of the hexd Sheikhs in the Soudan making inquiries xbout the movement, He was working on exactly the same lines as the original Mahdi, and in n very short time would have been in a He Wee token prisoner, sent to El Obeid under escort, and subsequent! tried und hanged, He was nob dress
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