GORDON'S LAST DISPATCH.
In the last dispatch received by the English Government from Khartoum, Gordon vrote as follows: "The only reinforcements the Soudan has received siuce November 27, 1883, the date when Hick's defeat "was known m Cairo, is seven persons, including myself, and we have sent down over 60a soldiers and 2000 people. The people here and Arabs laugh over it. I shall not leave Khartoum until I can put Komcono m. If the Europeans like to go to the equator, I will give them steamers, but I 'will not leave these people after all they have gone through. I fear it is too late. We musi tight it out with our own means. Jf blessed by God we shall succeed, if not his will, bo be it. Wh«re is Wood? Kind regards to him and Generals Stephenson and Graham. Sou say your feeling is to abandon Soudan. So be it, but before you do that you must take down the Egyptian population, this the Arabs do not see. According to all accounts 5000 were murdered at Berber. All is for the best. I will conclude m saying we will defend ourseKes to the last ; that £ will not leave Khartoum; that I will try and persuade all Europeans to escape ; and that I am still sanguine that \py some means not clear God will give us an i»sue."
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 73, 27 February 1885, Page 2
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229GORDON'S LAST DISPATCH. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 73, 27 February 1885, Page 2
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