THE SOUDAN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 67, 18 August 1885, Page 4

THE SOUDAN.

EXTRACTS tiiOM GENERAL GORDONS DIARY, i

I (Home (Paper.) . ( I - SOME PERTINENT QUESTIONS.' If it's rigiit to send up a|n expedition now, why wa'sit not right to.sehd it upbefore ? It Was all 'very well to say one ought to consider the difficulties of tlirt Government, but it is not easy to got over a feeling that " a hope existed of 'no expedition being necessary, owing to our .having , fajlen." As for, Uiyself pe^sbnttflyj I' feel n« paticujar .rancour .Girthe subject Vbnt J own that I do uqt smv> *>*> show : that-,I like men, whoever, they> ; may be/whb 5 act m such a calculating way, andldooiot think one is bound to act the hypocrite's parts and pretend to be friendly 'towards them. I do not "j adge the question of abaridonying the; garrisbn drnn't; What I judge is the. decision of the Government. They ., "d;ul .not, dare. reply^Abandon the g»r- '' rison,'',Bo j; lhey prevented me leaving for ' (tie Equator, with the, determination not ■'to' relieve me, and . w the. hope— r.well, I wiir'ii'o^ ! 6ay ..what £heir hope was. . ■■" •Matchi'Ap'ril; Augußt~\yhy, he ought . to ■; have 'surrendered J ; ho said six mouths." iiDhare is my point of com. plaint. .■>-■••:■ „\:-' ■ 'i- THE BELIEF EXPEDITION. I altogether decline ..the imputation that the Has come to relieve hie. It' has come to save 6nt national honour m extricating the garrison &c.,. from a position m wUich our- <. . action iv Egypt has pi need these fi&i fisoiiß. I .was. .relief , expedition" No. \. They<are relief expedition No| 2;^A'-8 ( ! f or inyuelt I> coUld make good my re- . treat at -any mtimeutif I wishedj Now, realise what would happen if this'fii'aV expedition was to bolt a?id the* itrteaniere fell iuto the hands of. ( t^)^. This second relief expedition (ftjf; the honor of England enga£t>d ,m "extricating garrisons), would be . sbhitjr^ what hampered.,: We, the first and* ond expeditions, are equally eugagrd for the honor of England. This js .fair logic. I came up to extricate tire gar 5 -' 1 risonsand failed. Earl! comes up to ox? tricate the garrieons, and (I hopju) "* succeeds. Earll does not come to extricate me, The, extrication of the garrisons was supposed to affact our "national honour," If Earll succeeds, the" national honour" thanks him, and, I hope, rewards; him ; but it is alto? getht-r independent of me, who, for funing, incurs the blame. I am not the rescued lamb, aud I will not be. PHILOSOPII'ZING. ATfKHAETOUM. I must say ;I am against doctors. If a man is suffering intense pain and is m a more or less desperate condition, I would giv& as much morphine as would still that pain. There is nothing like civil war to show what skunks men are. One of. my greatest worries ar« the Shaggych, who^are continually , feathering toward mVor towards the Mahdi. I expeqt both 'sides despise them equally. ■ • On ApSTONE'B RiVAL IN ! FRILLS, ''' TAv Gladstone haß a rival up here m shirt collars,', Mohammed Bey Ibrahim, who appeared to-day with regular wiugs rathei ragged, his collars up to his ears, regular orthodox patterns. , <; \ OUR BRITISH DIPLOMACY. I must say I hate our diplomatists. I dwell on the joy of .never seeing Great Britain again, with its horrid, wearisome' parties, and miseries. How we can put iip With those things passes my imagin- i ation. It is a perfect bondage. At those dinner parties we'are all m mas s, saying what we do not belibve', eating and drinking things 'we. do not' want, and then abusing/ one another.- I would Boouer\.live like . a d'eryish with the MalSdi than go out to dinner every night m London, t hope if any English" -gwiie'ral comes to Khartoum ho will riot ask me, to dinner. Why men cannot be friends without bringing their wretched stomachs m is astnundidg. , i - i>if kHAETOUM- FALLS ? . We are wonderful people ; it was never our Government which made us a great ; nation ; our Government has been ever th.c.drag on- our wheels. It is, o* course'; i oithes jCpfls. that ithartouni is '.taken tinder fche % "nose of the expeditionary force, which will .be just too late. : The ; expeditionary force will perhaps think it ' necessary to to take^it ; but that will'.b.o. of,n« l Ußfe,'and^will«caußej lb r BS of life iis ? eV Uessly on Ibbth "-sides/ It 'had far better i quietly return, with its \tail between its 'ilegSj'&r once Khartoum is taken it matters little if the opposition say " You gave up Khartoum " or ," You gave up Khartoum, Sennar," &c, the sun will i have set, people, will not cafe much f 6v satellites; turersi'-nb^Tiy Us Government, and I be^lieve it will only . hold its place by adventurers.:^ 'If -Khartoura falls, - then go quietly b'aclftp'CJairo.f oft; you will only lose men and spend money uselessly m carrying on a cdrripijiigh.' ' •: ' i. /■■ V s a.ftx. . . : t .;• ■* ; I mnst'say. tiiail feel it a great com; . plxment vhen my councillors, say^tp me ! , •^Dp what you think right, irregpectiye : of our advice," when they knows ignorant of all that goes on, ignorant. of the' Arabic lancoiage, except m my style ; ignorant of the Ai;ab;.cnstoms, &c. " Yon Will do better than we do, 1 ' is what they say, andl^p.oor devil, do not If npw^wliere to turn. On-! ouj^Gpyermeht^ :o.nr Gf o • vernnient. |. whfit fias it. n/)t for ? Not to'rnje^ -.'jSn^to these'poot'people. I 1 declare if Ithought tlie.town wished ! the Maflhi',* I Would give it up, so much dojl respect free will, ' r RECONCILED TO FATE. , I go'out, a 'black Bashi BazMik ail-' dresses me on the inadequacy of hisf |>iy rations., ., I.whisper to him?" Goto Sheikh ■el ObeyeJ;" he. grins and evaporates. I .doihotcare a bitnow. We must, either (beireiieve'd 'or fall before ; the.>end ; of at tho end of Noyember. lam meditating' the sending down of Husaeinyeh with this post," if the Arabs cbijtie to Hafeyeh I then cut off iall h^pes of our escape, for the Ismalia steamer would riot.be fit ,tp go down to Berber. : The financial ? afiaivs up here wil] b,e a preipious job, I" d \ RABID WITH THE GOVERNMENT. I should be an angel — which I am not, needless to say — if I was not rabid with Her sjajesty>s?Gbverrimerit. : ' Bufc-TnopV I may be quiet on the subject of this Soudan and Cairo business, with its indecision ; but to lose all my- beautiful black Boldiers is enough to make one angry with those who haye th.c' dictation of our future. ..;•■" (Per s.s. Manapouri at the Bluff.) ' AGE SPECIAL. • : * London, August 6. In consequence of the critical state of affairs, it js proposed, to garrisori : Suakimj with Turkish 'tropjpg. (S,PECIAII TO"' UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION,) Lonpon, August 15. For their servioes at Bnakim, the Contingent have been awarded a clasp and a gratuity of a £2 a-piece to privates, the amount being increased for those occupying a higher rank. .