THE MAHDI'S MILITARY ADVISER.
According to the leading French military journal, the Paris »Avenir Militaire," the chief military adviser of the Mahdi is the ex-officer of the French army who blew up the powder magazine in the citadel of Laon during the Franco-German war of 1870. As the German armies advanced on Paris, the fortified town of Laon surrendered after a brief negotiation. The Duke of Mecklenburg, who commanded the German column, entered the citadel with a battalion of rifles, when, as the last man of the mobile guard forming its garrison marched out, a terrific explosion took place. The powder magazine had been blown up, according *to the "Avenir Militaire," by a Captain Verefc, and by the explosion the Duke of Mecklenburg was wounded, fifty men of the rifle battalion were killed, and forty-five more were injured. After the war Captain Veret is stated to havo entered business as a money-lender, but some discreditable transactions in which he was implicated having been exposed, he was sentenced to a fine of 30,000 f, and his name was struck off the roll of the Legion of Honor. Upon this Veret quitted France, and after some wandering found his way to Egypt, and ultimately, about three years ago, entered the service of the Mahdi.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2677, 21 April 1885, Page 2
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212THE MAHDI'S MILITARY ADVISER. Kumara Times, Issue 2677, 21 April 1885, Page 2
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