War in the Soudan
« • ■"■:-• CAPTUEE OF KHAETOUif. FATE OF GENEEAL GOEDON UNCERTAIN. ■- WEECK OF ASTEAMEE ON THE NILE. London, February 5, Tolegrams are to hand from Lord Wolseley stating that MahdinacT captured Khartoum through treachery. Some of Gordon's followers and General Gordon is probably a prisoner. _ ■ Laterl t .U> Further intelligence has been received showing that Khartbiinf^ felFoif?" 0 ?' 26th January. Sir Ctarles~ Wilson. with a detachment of the Eoyal SussexEegiment, arrived at Khart6um'>by l steamer from Metemneh on the 28tibjYA4*/. and found the city occupied by the enemy, and he forthwith returned,bnt'1 13 ■. under a heavy fire from the riverj banks. The steamer was afterwards fs - wrecked below Shabukli cataract.; . -AH " .-•;- ; , - on board were saved and landed on an ' island, from which a steamer has been . :^ sent to rescue them. The fate Qf/\ ; - General Gordon is as yet uncertain^ , ; r '; (The above appeared as an extra! i'jja^fl terday.) - '.. . ". ""'[''/''"'
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 100, 7 February 1885, Page 2
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149War in the Soudan Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 100, 7 February 1885, Page 2
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