THE SOUDAN.
The special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph at Gakdul states he thinks the following is the truest account of the fall of Khartoum. The first to enter the city were the Gaulin tribe* who entered by the Messalaroia Gate. The place was pillaged, and the people massacred. When he went up m the steamers with Sir Charles Wilson they saw many bodies m the Nile, occasionally observing dead men tied back to back. Two days before the fall of the city, the Mahdi got a lot of things made resembling English helmets, and paraded them m sight of the townspeople, telling them that these weie the helmets of soldiers whom he had killed. Gordon with a number of Shagiehg got into the Catholic Church. The Mahdi called upon him to surrender. This Gordon refused to do. The placed was then shelled and knocked to piects, everybody m it being killed.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 141, 20 May 1885, Page 2
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