A TALE OF THE SEGE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 6, 5 June 1885, Page 2

A TALE OF THE SEGE.

-i The correspondent of the Daily New* ihas ■, forwarded c a strange and dreadful 'stdry. which! he ? obtainld^rro!n/an^Egypt^. ian soldier who was present with Gor« don during the investiture of ffihiartaam by the Sfahdi.' All' the i story He* telW ia Iparticiilary interesting, but_ the part I 'specially alWd'ecl tb now is'the 'descriptidn |of the exocutioinof the; traitorous Pashai who attempt to bring about a disaster .tlifiiearly part.ofitheVsiege.^-jl^iirv ing a skirmish they, made .aitempts to go over to tlie enemy, but being seized by their own men ,{jhey were ( bound hand, |ana j foot" and brousht before Grofdohi 1 m ! |the words of the informer,- and they read | jlike a passage m the Koran or the Old I JTestapaentrr" How all these.-tbingg; aH4> Show the traitorous Pashas had been the jcause of our disgrace, Gordon Pasha hid • ispied from the .top of his house. H« was much grieved ; and when^the wicked >Pashas, who we^e both guilty, wer© brought bound, as^ tsaid, hand and foot before him, he spake' never a word, ex. cept • Away with theni V.-g. He was reading Holy Writ at the time. Miey wore jtried by court: martial, sentenced to death. Seven days afterjirards they were executed m the inner yard, near ths large jgqUare, of the (" prison.': J. They/wer« hewn' to pieces by a halbert. I saw th« execution," it; is no use yqiitelUrifif m« • they were shot/ I tell you accordinir to Turkish military law, a military traitor* is always sbntenced id be cut to pieces.;; The. two were bound up againat' the wall by : rings and chains. ;■ Two soldiers, k armed' with sharp 'hatchets, ay« I pronched them from /one otthe sidea/ *f a^square we had formed. v The prisoneni' crime was read out, ; and their sentenc*. A hundred soldiers were present, some Senior, ) officer.s, jli but not /Gordon Paslja. 1 The senior liey called" oiit, 'ExecutioneriV perform sentience on the traitors J* Im^ mediately these advanced . close, and lopped off,' first' their arms above the i'el-* Ibows, then the legs above the kneei, then cut their bodieg m twain ; then de« capitated ;them . .. . They/ died, not till .they w^re, cvi, asunder ; v then .their, heads , . f«ll , on their breasts',' and: they expired with a ' hideous yell. Surely their fate was deserved. . I cannot tell whether Gordon Pasha knew of this manner ot eiebniitiru "' I tell you this is the Turkish mode of punishing military traitore, and it 1b a just punishment." It is probable" Gordon knew nothing of all this, but even if he had, he was commanding a Turkith force, and would have found it probably impossible to maintain his authority had he interfered in^such afjerisis with the military laws of the force he was temporarily compelled :^to govern. The heroic manner m which the General sustained Jthe^sihlfing spirited? hw* lowers is well brought out m this apparently, .yeracious ; narrative. [ \ ■; fVGdrapjf" kept saying.tp us, 'Patience,, the Englißfi are cpming^-are" coming.'; G,pd ;f ' watches" over'j'oji.'" He was a good' man,' ',My { faith- * m- f God never' fails, 1 he; ' 'said • ' neither let yours.' ', In another 'place '■ the narrator, said, 1 l ?iWe had a' grand ! il^ lutnmation, v the night Gordon arriyed.'lf i all .Christians _were r ,like him, aU:i4ien> would become! Nazarahj but you do not' follow the teachings of ybiir' own prophel as we'Musstumans do.'* l ' ' " ! ;rTT /;

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