If there be any truth in the statement in the London Times of the 22nd ult. that Gordon Pasha in his report to the British Government mentioned " the extreme gravity of the situation at Khartoum, and requested British assistance at once," the withdrawal of British troops from Souakim at the present time must surely have seemed premature to anyone who has been closely watching the course of events in the Soudan. For attack the Egyptian troops have proved bat as playthings before the Arabs, and flee before them like geese before children. Tt is evident from the telegram which we publish to-day from Cairo that the Egyptian troops at Khartoum are of no better material than those commanded by Baker Pasha at Souakim. The telegram states that " Gordon Pasha made a sortie from Khartoum on the 16th March, at the head of a strong force of Egyptian troops. They proved perfectly untrustworthy, and fh'd at tha first charge of the Aiab cavalry, two hundred being killed." With this fact before us, it ia
strange that British troops should now be reembarking at Souakim for England and Cairo.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2369, 1 April 1884, Page 2
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