HOBART PASHA'S OPINION.
Hobarb Rwha recently wrote a let-' - ter on the Egyptian* rUfficulty; from wliiclj we ; tiakc tne followms: extract : — VThe war m tlje Soijilan muHtpow "l)e looked; upon .ftß a religious war.' Thowsands of Arabs have joined the standard of the Mahdi as fanatical ! pktnpi s, , wiiemlsi , fo 1 rmerly he was ' snpric>rt«d by a'cbbp|*ratiyQly fejnr in--BuiTectionary,>)an<.ls, comppseii of men interested m the slave tfad<\ haters of forei^nerp, etc. The Africans on masse are now fichtinst against the ; advance of Christiaus into their country, pn what appears to them ajß'i-i^-buttering exhibition. Now, if the snltan of Turkey m hi* jo«fc Tight as Caliph, head of the rehjjion and Sovereign of ' E^ypt, did but lift his finge-, and declare that England vns acting fihe. part of a >friend m accord with him, and if these J>ra ye people imderatood that their religioua chief approved oVordei^«eing'i-estoved by his friendly ally, and the rebel Mahdi be'iog!V|ronjrKt to; hVHpnsesvoh^-half of > the followers of this rebellious spi-, 4* distant prophet weuld lay, down their arms. Snch a sfcnte of thin«« can only be established* by a fi-ismlly accord between England and Turkey;"
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 115, 21 April 1885, Page 3
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189HOBART PASHA'S OPINION. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 115, 21 April 1885, Page 3
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