THE SOUDAN.
f: j.<J~ ■»- i ' - i -i. ♦ (KMKpRIO TELEGRAPH .— COPVRf JJHt i) : ', (ROUTERS' TELEGRAMS.") \. i k '•■■ !. jliOsdov, .Feb. 9 ? Tluce battalion* of the Guards sire under orders to proceed to Soudan . \< ffhey $rilli embark, at Portsmouth, fer V. Suakim direct on Saturday next. It • v ii* tinted tlia^ -six himdred men of the Arabian "Militia are coming to do gar- ' riispn duty m place of iUe troops being ■ despatched to Egfpt. . .. ' ' / 'Rome, Feb. 4. /The Italian Government have do- : > cided that if, requested^ : assistance be a Horded England m operations , against Mahdi. .-'■■ Cairo, ffeW 10: ; "Sir Charles Wilsonj who was ' Wrecked while returning from 1 Khartoum to; M>temnoh, nn<l was rescu'al from the-island on which he landed, ■ near the Shabukli cataract and with 'iT detachnient, reached Metemneh m ' safety, haS since arrived at Korti" to . confer with , Sir Garnet Wolseley. . More troops are being despatched ' fro>n Korti to Guhat, which has been . yjreinforced by a detachment of Artil : ■' j- ,-i> - Souakim, Feb. 10. ' News has reached liere, I hat Osraan Digna is massing a large force of 'Mahdites near Tamai, between this 1 'place and Berber. .^ .."-.'," Bombay, Feb. 10. Reinforcements of troops to ha dis- -, patched to, Sondai), from Tndia, will * ' consist .of Indiau native regiments.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 59, 11 February 1885, Page 3
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206THE SOUDAN. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 59, 11 February 1885, Page 3
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