The Desperate Situation of Emin Bey.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 192, 19 February 1887, Page 3

The Desperate Situation of Emm Bey.

There will be reason for regret if the Budden recall of Henry M. Stanley does not prove to bo for the relief of Emm Bey. ' No man is better fitted to direct an expedition to Wadyly than he who '• discovered Livingstone ;" and the recont announcement that the British Government has favourably considered hia plans gives ground for hope that he will be chosen for the work. For more thin three years and a half Dr. Emm and his comrades have been practically isolated from the civilised world. They are at Wadyly,near Gondokoro, on the Nile, aboutnine hundred miles boyondKhartoum. Savage hordes swarm about them, a single tribe having an army of 100,000 men largely armed with muskets. Againet terrible odds the brave German naturalist has held out, as did Ma loader, Gordon, year after year, wearily looking to Europe for help that has not yet come. On January Ist last he wrote that he was in gr^at straits, but hoped to hold out a little longer. In April he wrote again, sending his letter by Dr. Junker, Hi*» ci llections of specimens of natural history had all been lost, but he had preserved the valuable results of his geographical work. On July 7th he wrote for the third time, expressing little hope of rescue, but declaring that he would stand by his post till the Government or death removed him, or until he could provide for the safety of the vast population he had saved from the ravages of the slave trade Since that date no word has come from him, the hostile attitude of the powerful King of Uganda having blocked the last lino of communication. So the situation stands. A myriad of blood-thirsty savages are held at bay by a handful of Europeans and a few faithful negro troops, of whom Dr. Emm says that they are trusty and able in the highest degree—"a raca second to none in capacity, and, excelling many others in unselfishness." But the end must come, and soon ; and unless a relief corps cuts its way in there is but one end possible. The British Government alone can provide the material force, and Mr Stanley can best supply the directing mind. If they act promptly they may yet avert the fate that befell Gordon at Khartoum from Gordon's loyal Lieutenant Wadyly.— "N.Y Tribune."