Khartoum Affairs
[rEUTKR'B TELEGRAMS.]
London, September 29.
Information has been received from Khartoum which discloses a deplorable state of things. Starvation is staring the beneiged garrison in the face, there being barely sufficient supplies to last until the end of September, and everything in the way of provisions are being ■old at famine prices. When the food gives oat it is expected that the fall of Khartoum is certain. All hope of being rescued by the British relief expedition baa teen Abandoned by General Gordon, who has resolved that he will never desert the women and children. - The negro troops fight bravely, but the rest are the veriest cowards, a few Arab horsemen being sufficient to drive hun dreds ot them b*ck Ten thousand men Khartoum are joining the rebels who are again besieging the town. Gordon hat promised freedom to the slaves of the rebel* who remain in Khartoum.
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 47, 2 October 1884, Page 3
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