ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 82, 10 March 1885, Page 3

ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.

The^oepes of, slaughter at Khartoum are 7 4ejjcrib'ed :,as 'surpassing the Bulgarian latropiities^nd rivalling the worst hornoia p&tbe Sepoy mutiny.; The panicstricken >Egyptiari8 ■:' were captured m theifflight,' and put to death with the niosfr 'fi&ndrsh tortures. Some were traniffijfed ( with'Bpearß and -feft to bleed to death. of -the victims were rautilateu/iri the /most horrible manner. The. eye* srerejy. gouged out, the noses slit^ and tongnea torn out byi the roots. In itfany' caBOB ■ the mutilated parts of the Victims were thmst into their mouths whili'thiiy were still living; The massacre"'included' 1 many non-combatants, and^^e'^fijlji'ptian women were subjected to tne mdßt J Bti'am6f til iiidf^nitfes. More than a hundred women and youn? girls weßftßi?f?ft>.' JWi. *° ' *V- ;:J|4ahdi f 8 fol T lowers K> bft.iised as^ejayes. .-. ..Afterthe slaughter many of the Arabs were. seen rushing: aboatthe streets with the, heads of B.^yptian^ ilnpaled upon' spears. ' The nig*ht?-was 'spent' m a saturnalia of blood, anfl'deb'aucheryj . Sfn'ce'the^ cap I ture. J ( of Khartoumj El MsWi^a'S repaii'ed' tlie'fbrtificatiorißand majae^he.jpVjaipe.^ weli-pigh impreghable. He l^B'/m^4fl..|}i- Ifis^^.pprmanent headquarters, and is said to have" ah a'bun-, dft nee of guns, small arms and aminunitioftf^'^ U'<i. :. it. »■:: ■ .., ■■■ BothLbf ' Colonel -Wilson's steamers were wrecked owing to treachery of the pHbts"] who l will- be 'court-martialed. The! i Stari3fii >! d; and all the ' morning p.iprriefbsed to belie,ye the story of GfiMb <?brd9n'B death. '':';■ - ; ■ J 'from ,Kpr£i, ! dated Feb; iCaWtfSd&^'.tfw? Mu3ir ot ' Dongola is now convinced thfltKliart'oum'has fallen^ aod tbatd&ensraj , Gordon is dead, tSohio of the rxjbel», on yainitig access, to Khartoum yTvent to Governnienthouse atid "M6t- G Rlioral Gordon: comin g oui> ar^cdl albtVg^i^h Mahoihmed Bey Mustapha and twenty soldiers. While proceeding to thi/Austridai consulate they met a party of rebels, who fired a volley and General Gordon 'Valid Mohammed MustatJhWell^kd. " - / -,-i'A <teßpateb.from Calcutta, dfted Febrtiary r ls, iy ßayß' that the papers, both A^'gidflndian and native, 1 are raoally iffytftifcttkir cdtmiients on' ine event* ii> tl»y Bd(idaw'; but a differeififee' of opinion iS^^re^ed. in'Tee«fd to th^ des^»atcb; of ladiytfiTqoj^to^Bgypt. T4ve Press is Hnaniitidua that )l lndia ghoiiVd . 4iotj.be saddled witi» ! tfte r expenße of a campaign. Native officers, including Mahomedaos, have petitioned for active service.