GENERAL GORDON’S JOURNALS.

Kumara Times, Issue 2768, 5 August 1885, Page 2

GENERAL GORDON’S JOURNALS.

A despatch from Boston, June 24, says the journals of General Gordon at Khartoum, voluminous extracts from which are given out to the newspapers to-day, make a crown octavo volume of over 500 pages. (It was published Jane 21.) The diaries are in six parts. A prominent feature in the extracts is the condemnation, frequent and bitter, which Gordon has for what he. terms the “ indecision of the British Government.” In this connection he writes; “ It is not easy to get over a feeling that a hope existed of no expedition being necessary owing to our having fallen.” He believes the Soudan should be given lo the Turks; and incidentally referring to India says:-—“lndia to England is not an advantage. It is the cause of a'l parly int-riynes ; while, if our energy were d-voied elsewhere, it would produce tenfold. India sways all out- policy to our detrimeat.” Xa a

similar manner Gordon touches u])on the marvellous but constant y 'V 1 ' theme of the shortcomings of English administration. “ Oh, } our Government, our Government, he w ' > « what has it not to answer for—not to me, but to these poor people. 1 declare if I thought the town wished the Mahdi I would give it up, so much do I respect free will ’ A passage apparently indicating the tone _ entile book, is the following i could,” he says, “ write volumes of pent up wrath on this subject if 1 believe these things were ordained, an that all work for the best.’