THE SOUDAN.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4907, 1 October 1884, Page 2

THE SOUDAN.

Caibo, September 29

-A detachment of the Eoyal Sussex Regiment is being conveyed by water towards Berber.. Intelligence has been received here of an accident which occurred during the passage of one of the cataracts of the Nile. Boats containing two officers and thirty-six, men were wrecked on one of the islands in the Nile, and two men lost their lives. JjOHpoN, September 29. The State of Ktotoum. Information has been received from Kliartoura which, discloses a deplorable

state of things. Starvation is staring the besieged garrison in the face, there being barely sufficient supplies to last until the end of September, and everything in tho way of provisions is being sold at famine prices. When the food gives out it is expected that the fall of Khartoum is certain. All hope of being rescued by the British relief expedition has been abandoned by General Gordon, who has resolved that he will never desert the women and children. The negro troops fight bravely, but the rest are the veriest cowards, a few Arab horsemen being suffi cient to drive hundreds of them back. Ten thousand men in Khartoum are joining the rebels, who are again besieging the town. Gordon has promised freedom to the slaves of the rebels who remain in Khartoum. Cairo, September 22. Reports arc to hand from Dongola that sickness has broken out among the British troops now stationed there, and three deaths have already occurred.

[Specials to the Pbess Association]

London, September 27. In monetary circles there is a strong feeling in favour of the universal inscribing of colonial loans.

September 28. The French have searched two British trading vessels at Formosa.