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+ [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. BRITISH TROOPS AND THE SOUDAN REVOLT. ONE THOUSAND ARABIANS FOR EGYPT. BAKER PASHA'S BASE OF OPERATIONS. (Received January 17, 1 a.m.) London, January 16. In the course of his speech at Newcastle last night, the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlaiu alluded to the occupation of Egypt by a British force, and stated that the withdrawal of troops had only been delayed by the revolt in the Soudan, and that Government still adhered to the proposed eventual evacuation of Egypt, as previously announced. Cairo, January 15. A colonel of the Egyptian Army has started for Turkey with authority to enlist a thousand Arabians for service in Egypt. Baker Pasha, commanding the Egyptian troops in the Soudan, meditates transferring his base of operations from Souakim to Massowah, off the northern coast of Abyssinia, and he bus already obtained assurances of friendship from Abyssinia.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2305, 17 January 1884, Page 2
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