KHARTOUM CAPTURED BY THE MAHDI.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5014, 6 February 1885, Page 2

KHARTOUM CAPTURED BY THE MAHDI.

Gordon Probably, a Rrisoner.

Tareacaery of Some of Gordon's Followers.

Wreck of a Steamer.

Gordon's Fate Uncertain.

(Kocoived February 6, 11 a.m.)

London, February 5.

Telegrams are to hand from Lord Wolseley stating that the Mahdi has captured Khartoum through the treachery of some of Gordon's followers, and that Gordon is probably a*'prisoner. *

Later.

Further intelligence has been received showing that Khartoum fell on the 26th of January.

Sir Charles Wilson, with a detachment of the Royal Sussex Regiment, arrived at Khartoum, by steamer from Metemneh, on the 28th, and found the city occupied by the enemy, and he forthwith returned, but under a heavy fire from the river banks. The steamer was afterwards wrecked below the Shehukli cataract, but all on board were saved, and landed at an island, from which a steamer has been sent to the rescue.

The fate of Gordon is as yet uncertain.

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London, February 3,

Lord Derby has accepted the offer of the Wolverine for serrice in New Guinea, the New South Wales Gorernmont undertaking to refit her.

Sir F. Dillon Bell, A gent-General, for New Zealand, has invited the other Agents General to make objection to Austria's proposal to establish penal colonies, so far as the Pacific is concerned.

February 4 It is expected that Italy will occupy Suakim, a town on the Bed Sea.

Portugal ha« seized the banks of the Congo. lion. J. Goshen, speaking at Edinburgh, •aid that (he union of the colonies vras essential to the Empire.