The Soudan War.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 135, 19 May 1884, Page 2

The Soudan War.

[Reuter’s Telegrams.) GENERAL GORDON’S SAFETY. London, May 16. In the House of Lords to-day Earl Granville announced that Government had received a telegram from Cairo announcing that refugees from Berber and Korosko who arrived at Assouan, on the Egyptian border, report that Gordon was well when the last advices were despatched from Khartoum. He further announced that refugees from Berber and Korosko who reached Assouam, reported that General Gordon had made some sorties from Khartoum with the Egyptian garrison, and had on each occasion successfully attacked the rebels who were surrounding that city. May 17. It is reported that the Government has now decided to make preparations for the despatch of an expedition to the Soudan to relieve General Gordon. It is further stated that troops will start as soon as the Nile has risen sufficiently to permit the passage of a small steamer. No official announcement has yet been made. Cairo, May 17. The Governor of Dongola declines to accept the permission granted him to withdraw the garrison and abandon the town. In consequence of further representations by the Egyptian Government, England has now consented to the despatch of Egyptian troops to Wady Haifa and Korsko, on the Nubian frontier.