The Massacre at Khartoun.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 127, 11 April 1885, Page 2

The Massacre at Khartoun.

By tbe English mail to hand •we learn, tbe best authorities agree that, the t f all of Khartoum was due to the -tieaehefy, of Faragb Pasha, who commanded Gordon's Soundanese troops. This miSdreaht betrayed the city and ita g lerious defender on ihcmoraing of January 26. It is alleged that Gordon had always mistrusted' this man, treason- having beea proved against him on a previous occasion, in respect of which be was. cowLepaed to death ; but Geoeral Gordon, either dlubt. ing the fidelity of the Soudanese itriepa, with whom he possessed great!. iafluencs, yielding in that spirit' of generosity which di-itinguUhed him, to Farngh's roi.*4**aled prayers for pardon and professions' ef . devotion, forgave him. For many months Faragh's conduct was' above, suspicion ; but it is thouuht. that,' fenrjnfr <Jn 'the arrival of tie English, punixhtiiebt would ovrrake > im. die e_a--ro<l into negotiations with the Mui.h.'s troops. < The. hunters of Kordofan and those Cossacks of the Soudan, the Baggara horsemen, rushed into the devoted ci^y,*nd the word was given to slay... A,uiassacre if indescribable ferocity followed. Those who had remained fai thf ul, to the Julian t Englishman who had^stooA l between them and the knife so (long, were^rcga-rdleaa-qf age or sex, ruthlessly butchered, tbeSiJmett being murdered in cold blood, ami-- the little children spitted- oV-ArSb.spenri oat of pare wantonness^, f All those inlatirea of the faithful 500 under* Nuswi^j&ha, W H° *MJf*s4 !». **, pßbat. shaped the general f uie. From the; ac&Jtfnt of aa eye witness who- boarded Sir Charle? Wilson's steamer on the return voyage from Khartoum, it wo*ld-appj«to%Kat for an entire day the streets of the city" ran with blood. /But aUowijog for Oriental exaggeration, no doubt the. scene of c image wbioh followed tjbtff/ebtm'ASe of $•■ Wr.W* c ; of^warnpra. into tb* tity, was one of unparallel^ BbVAp. The bulk of the troops, .' boif'eirer,. wittingly joined the' Mad hi, ahd'bi^ eh':eft*¥g*jdily organised a system of defe&e* f ©if *■» oity throning up emtlyiiigrcdeuto* commandins the spproacl-es of the pity ..Mjn all points.^ into, these outlyingfortifimtions an immense number of mafksmen: havo beea thrown, together wifc_ '"UtaMt-. •artridges, and _ie_sy > ■■■'■■'*&*■*'■ *i*