THE SOUDAN.
Capture off€rordon contraflicted Sinkaat m Peril. i ; i } "/ JbefttoiteFate. '■" I Cordon Pasha on his way to •' ' ' Khartoum.^ ] J-' : ' : Baker Pasha recalled. Admiral Hewitt m Supreme .. Command, (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH — COPYRIGHT^ (REUIER ; 8 TELEGRAMS.) j .: London, February 8; The telegram published by tho Daily News m its issue', yesterday, stating that Gordon Pasha was a captive m the hands of the rebels near Korosko, •has beeii contraateted, and, the report is stated to .be without foundation. . " Cairo, February 9. Telegrams "from Souakim state that a rmessenger. ha? airiy^i ih|re from ; Sinkaat, the Governor of the latter town having sent an urgent appeal for help, the garrison andinhabitante being. -m extremities^;; Itdsj howevei-, impossible to send assistance, and the fate of the town is considered hopeless: ' i .Traders from .Nubia report having rJ met Gor Jon- -Pasha between Korosko and Aboahamed.' He was then proceeding to Khartoum. i< Baker Pasha has been recalled from Sotiakim by the Khedive, and Admiral Hewitt, commander of the East Indian squadron, -has been invested -with the command of thevjown and the tvpops stationed there. The town has been declared to belin a state of siege.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 61, 11 February 1884, Page 2
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191THE SOUDAN. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 61, 11 February 1884, Page 2
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