THE WAR IN EGYPT
aBUTBB'g TBUGBAMiLondon, November 27. The Arabs report that there is a large army belonging to El Mahd. m close proximity to Khartoum, and tbat there are only 2000 in the city ta protect it. All moans of retreat from the town by land hare been closed; and the river ii also menaced. Steps are being taken to fortify Assouan, a town near the first cataract of the Nile. Baker Pasha (Colonel Valentine Baker) starts for the Souakim in tem days. The Turkish officers of Egyptian gendarmes refuse to serve m the Soudanand they, and the troops under theu command, have refused to proceed there. A rising is expected in Upper Egypt.
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 76, 29 November 1883, Page 2
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