MORE NEWS FROM THE SOUDAN.
GORDON STILL .PERHAPS SAFE.
(fciiKCTRi:; TSLEGR vPH.— COPrBIOHT.) .'■< (REUTERS' TELEGRAMS;) ; - jL' liosbos, Eeb. 8. Information from Khartoum has , been received to the effect that the English" troops' under General Gorw don approached to within 2QO yards of the rebels, and that only the flags, of the latter could then he seen. The batteries kept up 3 hot shelling, b"ut the troops were compelled to retreat, and this was affected . partly by strategy. Some of the reports state that General Gordon was killed, and that there was fh% . teen days of hard fighting, while others say that two pashas betrayed General Gordon, but Jie is alive and still defending Khartouin 1 . The Observer states that Lord Wolielejr has been instructed to suppress the rebellion if General Gordon is dead. : . TPhe Italian Government are prepared to send 35,000 troops to the Soudan if necessary.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 58, 10 February 1885, Page 2
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