ABYSSINIA. 



July 12, with his entire force 2,400 

 men, native and Italian, under 54 

 Italian officers he arrived at the front 

 after the enemy had begun to retire. 

 He closely pursued them, hut they 

 made good their retreat to Kassala and 

 awaited behind intrenchments the com- 

 ing of the Italians, who left Sabderat, 

 on the border of the Italian territory, 

 at midnight, and at dawn on the 17th 

 came unexpectedly upon Kassala. The 

 Italian troops advanced at once to the 

 attack, and carried the outer works 

 without difficulty, as the Mahdists were 

 taken somewhat by surprise. Inside 

 thr town the garrison, consisting of 

 2,000 infantry and 600 cavalry, fought 

 desperately, but were dislodged by a 

 charge of cavalry, well supported by 

 the infantry, and retreated in disorder 

 to the Atbara river. Capt. Carchidio 

 was killed while charging at the head 

 of his squadron, and a few of the na- 

 tive auxiliaries lost their lives. The 

 dervishes were unable to cross the 

 swollen Atbara, and most of them sur- 

 rendered to the troops that were sent 

 in pursuit. A strong garrison was left 

 at Kassala in a fortified position, pro- 

 vided with artillery and ammunition 

 and stores sufficient for a siege. 



Anglo Italian Protocol. The 

 boundary between the British East 

 Africa and the Italian sphere of in- 

 fluence, as settled on March 24, 1891, 

 ascends the Juba river in a northwest- 

 erly direction to the sixth parallel of 

 north latitude, then runs due west to 

 the intersection of the thirty - sixth 

 meridian of east longitude, and thence 

 due north to the Blue Nile. On May 

 5, 1894, another protocol was signed 

 at Rome, which delimits the Italian 

 sphere from the British possessions on 

 the Gulf of Aden. The boundary is 

 constituted by a line that, starting 

 from Gildessa and running toward the 

 eighth degree of north latitude, skirts 

 the northeast frontier of the territories 

 of the Girri, Bertiri, and Derail tribes, 

 leaving to the right the villages of 

 Gildessa, Darmi, Giggiga, and Milmil. 

 On reaching the eighth degree of north 

 latitude the line follows that parallel 

 as far as its intersection with the forty- 

 eighth degree of longitude east of 

 Greenwich. It then runs to the in- 

 tersection of the ninth degree of north 

 latitude with the forty-ninth degree of 

 longitude oast of Greenwich, and fol- 

 lows that meridian to the sea. Both 

 governments engage to conform in 

 their respective protectorates to the 

 stipulations of the general act of Ber- 

 lin and t lie declaration of Brussels rela- 

 tive to freedom of trade, and in the 

 port of Xeila British and Italian sub- 

 jects and protected persons will receive 

 equality of treatment in all that re- 

 lates to their persons or property or the 

 pursuit of trade or industry. By this 



