The White Pasha

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 29, 18 August 1888, Page 3

The White Pasha

♦- A telegram from Suakin, in an English paper, states : — Several indepen- » dent repprts made .by refugees from Berber and Khartquns and by deaer- ' , ters from Osman^Digna's force, coar firm the rumors that " a white Pasha" J i —generally believed to Mr H. M. 1 Stanley — with an army, has arrived 3 at Bahr- el-Gazelle. Further reports J are spreading all over the Soudan I that this army has conquered the k country traversed throughout its march. 1 The Mahdi is reported to be greatly > alarmed at the appearance of a supk posed English expedition in his rear, • and the reports are accredited by the I" Military Intelligence Department at • Suakim. A telegram was received in • Cairo from Eundle Bey stating that *' persistent rumors reach him from the L . Bahr-el-Gazelle, announcing the arh rival of a white man there, possibly > Mr H. M. Stanley. • Another 'telegram from Suakin con- • tains news about the Mahdi and his 1 henchman, Osman Digna :- -Osman I Digna has returned to Handoub from ' Tokar. Abu Girgeh is still at Han- !• doub. It is reported that their joint ■ forces number 4000. We have trust f worthy information that the Khalifa t has ordered Osman Digna to suspend 1 operations and permit trade with. ■ v iSuakim 1 for two months, as an experi- .. ment. A market has been opened '.' outside the town gates. The pros- '- peefcs of a reopening of trade are now • much brighter. The local trade at Agigois increasing, and the country round Kowayat is more settled.