The army for Khartoum is being rapidly concentrated at the
fort on the Atbara. All the Tv ash troops have arrived, including the Guards battalion him 'firs) and the 37th Field Battery with its 5 in. howitzt. aQese guns fire Lyndite high explosive shells, and great t the ;l re expected from the effects of their fire when they areted h' as they will be, to shell the defences of Omdurman. Ji, Daily Mail correspondent at the front gives in Wednesday. issue some very curious information as to the march of the transport camels, which marched a thousand miles from Assiont without a day's halt. "Only one camel died. This is pro- bably an unprecedented record, and is attributed to the new sun-hood devised by the principal veterinary surgeon of the Egyptian Army. The camel that died was not wearing its hat." Previous telegrams have stated that the flotilla of gunboats and barges has already been concentrated at the month of the Atbara ready to take up the food and other
supplies. Apparently the army will partly march along the bank and partly depend upon the flotilla. The Sirdar, how- ever, like a wise man, keeps his own counsel as to all arrange- ments, and tells no one when, or how, he means to begin his advance.
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