THE SOUDAN.
HOW GOBDON WAS KILLED.
The following story of how the Hero of Khartoupft met with Ms death is told: by an eye-wjtness :— But listen, I pray; you. Have you not asked me "where Gordon Pasha was slain? You s>y everybody lias said he was either killed on the courtyard steps of the palace or outside, going to the Austrian Consul's house. They all lie ! If you choose to believe them you may, it matters not to me. I am a respectable Greek merchant, nnt an Arab. You YfaTvtthe truth; I tell it to you. True, t did not see Gprr.. don slain; but everybody iav3ShaCrtovitti' knowa where the event happened. - A.n ! - Arab rushed upstairs and shot him with a gun as he was reading the Bible. Another Arab cut off his head and puVit on a spear ; and so went forth intp the city, carrying and brandishing ;jt on high. The Coptics m the palace m the rooms below were slaughtered at the same time. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH — COPYRIGTHT) (■REUTER'tt TELEGRAMS.) Constantinople, August 20. Sir Drummond Wolff arrived here today, on a special mission to the Sultan respecting Egyptian affairs. , . _ Cairo, August 20. The three regiments of line now on duty m this country, have received instructions to return to England. Eeports are to hand announcing that the rebels have occupied Eldebbeh, near Old Dongola, and that they are now advancing upon new Dongola.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 71, 22 August 1885, Page 2
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236THE SOUDAN. Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 71, 22 August 1885, Page 2
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