CAIRO.
February 21. Tho garrison at Tokar has yielded to the rebels. Telegrams to hand from Souakim that messages had been received there from tho Governor of Tokar stating that, being without food, and finding that it was impossible to further prolong the defence of the town, which for some days previously had been closely invested by the enemy, he had been compelled to accept the terms offered by the Arab besiegers, and had agreed to surrender the town to them. The telegrams further state that one-half of the garrison had submitted to the rebel leader, but that the remainder had become fugitives. Nothing- is yet known sis to the manner in which the non-combatant inhabitants have been treated by the adherents of the Mahdi.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3931, 25 February 1884, Page 3
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125CAIRO. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3931, 25 February 1884, Page 3
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