THE WAR IN EGYPT.-HELPLESS POSITION OF GORDON PASHA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3987, 2 May 1884, Page 3

THE WAR IN EGYPT.-HELPLESS POSITION OF GORDON PASHA.

THE FEDERATION AND RECIDIVISTE QUESTIONS.

LONDON.

April 27

It is stated in Cairo that the town of Korosko is threatened by the followers of ElMahdi. , , A An attempt has been made by Anarchists to destroy the statue of " Germania," which was unveiled at Neiderwald in September last, by dynamite. The attempt was made on the day it was unveiled by the Emperor William, but failed, owing to the heavy rain falling. Osman Digneh has rallied a large force, and is encamped at Handouk. The rumor from Pekin that Prince Kung, late First Secretary of State, had committed suicide in consequence of his having been publicly degraded, is denied. The latest information from Berber states that the troops stationed there arefraternisin°- with the rebels. This action has caused great consternation among tho residents, who are leaving the district in large numbers. ~,.,■• Earl Granvile states that England is willing to invite the Great Powers to consider the best means of maintaining order, and also carrying on the good government of Egypt. Ho is, however, waiting to sec what action Franco and Turkey take in the matter. April 28. Sir F. D. Bell will shortly proceed to Paris to interview M. Faure, the French Under-Secretary for the Colonies, on the Recidiviste question. Lord Derby states privately that he is anxious to legislate in favor of federation, but cannot do anything in the > matter until some of the colonies sanction the result of the recent conference at Sydney. April 29. Sir Henry Parkes, in a letter to the Nineteenth Century, explains his plan for the federation of the colonies and the appointment of a London-Australian Council. „ .. The Empress of Germany is improving in health. * The Standard publishes a report from Egypt to the effect that four divisions of Bedouins, numbering 500 soldiers, have deserted from the ranks of Gordon Pasha ? s garrison at Khartoum, and that his position Is helpless. The same paper states that tho Soudan is lost as far as Wadyholfa.

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