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[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. >—• —< FALL OF THE RIVER NILE. THE PROPOSED BRITISH EXPEDITION TO KHARTOUM. | { PROBABLE TRANSIT ACROSS THE DESERT VIA SOUAKIM. SPORADIC CHOLERA IN BIRMINGHAM. LOWERING THE FRENCH FLAG AT PEKIN. FRENCH SUBJECTS IN CHINA. (Received August 22, 0.45 a.m.) Cairo, August 20. The River Nile is falling steadily, and the passage of the Cataracts, by which it was proposed to convey the British expedition to Khartoum in boats, is now impossible. It is believed that the despatch of the proposed expedition via the Nile valley and Dongola will be abandoned, and that the troops will be despatched from Souakim across the desert, and by way of Berber to Khartoum. London, August 21. It is now aunoanced that the disease from which the death at Birmingham occurred was sporadic and not Asiatic cholera. (Received August 22, noon.) Hong-Kong, August 21. Intelligence is to hand from Pekin that the flag at the French Embassy in that city has been lowered, and that the protection of French subjects resident there has been confided to the Russian Legation. Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriters Association :—London, August 20.—Arrived, the ship Invercargill, from Lyttelton, May 28.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2549, 22 August 1884, Page 2
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