Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1898 — BRITAIN SEIZES FASHODA. [ARTICLE]

BRITAIN SEIZES FASHODA.

General Kitchener Reports He Found the French in Possession. Gen. Kitchener found the French at Fashoda. He notified Major Marchand that he had express instructions that the territory was British and that the French must retire, and offered them passage to Cairo. Major Marchand absolutely declined to retire unless ordered to do so by his Government. No fighting occurred. Major Marchand was given clearly to understand that the British insisted upon their claims, and the rest has been left to be settled by diplomacy between the respective Governments. Gen. Kitchener sent a long ofljeial dispatch to London, hoisted the union jack and the Egyptian ensign, and left as a garrison the Eleventh and Thirteenth Sudanese battalions and the Cameron Highlanders to protect the British flag. The only organized remnant of the khalifa’s army was defeated and its last stronghold. Gedarif. captured after three hours’ hard fighting, when an Egyptian force numbering 1,300 under command of Col. Parsons routed 3,000 dervishes, of whom 500 were killed.