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Special to the Standard. [Under this heading will he found the latest items of news by cable received through Renter's agency, ■ \ and forwarded only .to the STANDARD, by special arrangement.~\ 1 -'-■'■ The Queens Health. Affairs at Soudan. Murder of Refugees. , ■. HBerfter Surrounded. ; (BY KLEOTRip TEtEGRAPH— COPYRIGHT.) (reoteb's telegrams.) * ■■; -- , j Darmst abt; Apnl 20. Her Majesty the Queen is recovering from hqr indisposition and attended church to day, ; ; ■ - Cairo, April 20.; c had reached here" shewing thattlVe. hostility, of the Arab tribes iotfthijjieighbov^rhpp^ of Berber has! in. Ino way dinainished. An attempt was i recently made by , 300, refugees fi^>m .sCendy to reaph Berber by eailing dotvn the, ; Nile, but the boats were attacked^ and all the refugees were massacred.! | Despatches from the Governor -of Berber, have' been rerceived announcingthat the.itown is m a most ciitical P9«i-^ tiop being entirely surrounded by Aijab x rebels., is m desp^ii^, bejuag unable # to_rel»r.eat, and jaot haying 1 rec^ye4. $Ie wliich was lqoked ; It is rumoured m circles. L thjat a^^gen^ral- congress of Runjpean I Powers is about to be held for the pirn' vpdfce of deciding tfpon the line of action to be pursued with regard to : Egyptian lefflivsil'':- "■!•>.-■•!;•■■ ' ;s-v-. :---:i:i: | - It has; transpired i that i Sir f . Sanmef .Bakfer,rectintly deceived". a»iett§r frbin : Geneml Gordon, describing the state of affairs m Soundan and position of the i garrison at Khartoum. In the course of the- letter .Gordon Pasha proposes m, view.of thei inactidn which is being displayed by the-ißribish Gftvernui^nt m, the^. matter that an a}>pea) should; be 1 i atrjiOnee made, to,;; Englishmen. M|n4; '.:■ Americabstto eontjubuleatowards, a fund fov.;depraying ; ;the expenses; of a< body 96 Turkish itvDopk whose serv,ic«?s whojild be .engaged; to ic6.«ec ; th c retreat: jaf jthe Fgyptiaai garrison at ' Khartovwa,- and ■.oitier foi'titied fownsiin Soudanv ,ii " ■' i -t(. i =
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 125, 22 April 1884, Page 3
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304LATEST CABLE NEWS. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 125, 22 April 1884, Page 3
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