27 AUGUST 1898, Page 2

The correspondents at the front all give interesting accounts of

the great review held at Wad-Hamed last Tuesday by the Sirdar. In a stretch of desert by the Nile was drawn up the force of twenty thousand men of all arms which is to attack Khartoum. The spectacle, says the correspondent of the Daily News, was a truly magnificent one, horse, foot, and artillery extending to a perfectly kept line four thousand yards long. The Horse and Field Artillery and the Camel Corps were in the centre, the two British Brigades on the left, and the Egyptian and Soudanese Brigades on the right. "As the Sirdar with his Staff passed up and down the lines, nothing escaped his keen eyes. As he expressed him- self as highly satisfied, we are entitled to claim that this Anglo-Egyptian army is a perfect fighting machine."