AFRICAN TROUBLES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1830, 18 December 1888, Page 4

AFRICAN TROUBLES.

Lootjon, December 13- , In the Ilouse of yssterday j the Right Hon,, Mr Morley strongly the Sondan campaign, as a/i repetition of Mr Gladstone's mistake. December 14. =■.; In the House of Commons to-day Lord Eandpjph Churchill,, jn, speaking, on the Soudan'war, urged that the -pre-'.] sent hostilities should : be suspended >i pending parleying for the release of captives. Berlin, December 16. The Reichstag has by a large majority adopted Herr Wjndhost's motion pledging Germany to suppress the slave trade on the East African Coast, SpAKiM, December 13. The bombardment of this place continues. The firing is now (heavier. ~ , December 14, Osman Digna has written to General Grenfell asserting that the Mahdi has conquered the Equatorial provinces;, Emin Bey resisted to the last, bat his troops mutinied, and delivered him* and a white traveller fy "b> Stanley) into the'bands of the'enemy. Osman has sent proofs in support of his assertion.

One of Osman Digna's forte, mounted with 64 pounders, which maintained: a heavy fire, has seriously damaged another of th'ir own forts. It is reported that Naib, th# rebel leader, has been seriously wounded by a shell, q A letter received by General Grenfell from Osman Digna. gives details of the surrender of Emin Bey and the white traveller to the Mabdi at Lado, on the 10th of October. Osman Digna encloses a letter from the white traveller who surrendered with Emin Bey, which proves to be a copy of a letter given" by the Khedive to Stanley, and.intended for Emin Bey.