In League With EI Mahdi.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 97, 11 April 1885, Page 6

In League With EI Mahdi.

Alexandria (Egypt), March 14.— Zebehr Pasha has been arrested, and in his houso documents were found proving his complicity with El Mahdi. He was put aboard a British frigate. Zebehr Pasha will be interned on the island of Cyprus. He has been under surveillance which practically made him a prisoner during the past two years. His wealth, mainly acquired in the slave trade, was confiscated, and he was allowed a quarterly stipend on condition that he should not leave Alexandria without the consent of the Khedive. General Gordon pleaded that Zebehr should be restored to power in the Soudan, and said that the ex slave king was the only man who had enough nerve and prestige to keep the Arab 3 in subjection. General Gordon had encountered Zebehr during his former service in Egypt, and had hanged one of Zebehr's sons, who had been left, as a hostage, and whose life became forfeited by an act of treachery on Zebehr's part. When Gordon was pent to Khartoum last year, both he and Zebehr Pasha seemed to have agreed to ignore the past. It was another of Zebehr's sons who escorted General Gordon across the desert from Korosco to Abu Hamed. Without this escort it is certain that General Gordon would never have reached Khartoum. It has now been discovered by the British Government that Zebehr has been in continual correspondence uith El Mahdi both before and since |the capture of Khartoum and the killing of General Gordon. Several other persons are about to be arrested, including prominent notables.