6,000 Troops Slain

Alivíeos t'i'oin Brussels -..iv: The entire Dhanis expedition to the headwaIers of the Nile, inclnding Harón Dhanis hitnst'lf, has bcen massacrect. Dhanis last year enlisted 6,000 men in the i'onr,) Freo State, to lake part in a secret expedition. The Brttish g-overoment allowed i numbei of Hussai troops tq join the expedition, but i u;is officially denied t lia t. an AngloBelgian movenient lias bcen thuscon'■oled agaiost the Mahdiste. The general impression, however, was tliat Ilüs forco was inlemU-U to act in conjunction with the Anglo-Eg-yptian ex ])ocliiion up tlie Nile and take the Mahdists between lwo lires, and evontually complete the re-conquest of the Soudan. In August last liaron Dhanis was reported to have arrived at Lado, DOrth of the territory of the Congo l'i-ee State, on the White Nile and some 325 miles norlli of the Victoria Nyanza. It was then understood that the Dhanis expedition wou IJ push northward in the tlirection of Khartouin. In September, when last heavd from, the baron was at Stanley Falls, 800 miles from the ncarest force.