THE SOUDAN WAR.
London February 7.
No details have come to hand regarding the capture of Khartoum, Press telegrams from the Soudan having been stopped. The Cabinet have given Lord Wolseley complete discretion, promising him every assistance he may demand, stating England will strive to save Gordon it living. Lord Wolseley telegraphs to the Horse Guards that he is sending a messenger to ascertain the fata of Gordon. He also sta'es that the Shukriyeh tribes have joined the Mahdi; therefore, both banka of the Nile are now hostile. The telegram farther announces that the British convoys reached Gubat, on the road to Metemneh.
The accounts to hand of Sir Charles Wilson’s expedition from Metemneh to Khartoum, state that to him the palace at the latter place appeared wrecked, and it was the general opinion that Gordon had been kilbd, but the Mahdi’s messenger, who came to Sir Charles Wilson with a summons to surrender, asserted that he (Gordon) was alive. . Cairo, February 7. The latest telegrams from Kciti state that General Euse's progress towards Berber is unopposed, and that steamers from Gubat are able to patrol the river and obtain supplies
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1451, 9 February 1885, Page 3
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191THE SOUDAN WAR. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1451, 9 February 1885, Page 3
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