GENERAL GORDON BETRAYED AND KILLED.
, . . GALLANT RESCUE OF SIR C. ! WILSON'S FORCES. " : " OsLECTBIO TELEGRAPH. — COPYRIGHT) : : (ewjtkb's tkle&bams.) ; ; • Koun, Feb. 9 ■V Geueral Gordon waa lulled while leaving his honi* m the city. He was betrayed bjr'.Faragn Pasha coninmn- . cle'r of his Soudanese troops. ' Captain Lord C. Beresford succeedi ed m rescuing Sir Charles Wilson * after a sharp action with the fort be iow the Shabukli Cataract, during ; -Which a shot from the fort penetrated •the boiler of the steamer under his 4K>jninand, but which was successfully .repaired under .fire. -/i. , London, Feb. 10. Ht is reported at Gubat that Gene- , iral Gordon was killed on ihe morning of 27th January.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 61, 13 February 1885, Page 3
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110GENERAL GORDON BETRAYED AND KILLED. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 61, 13 February 1885, Page 3
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