AN IRISH LEGION FOR THE MAHDI.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2122, 17 October 1885, Page 2

AN IRISH LEGION FOR THE MAHDI.

"No news having reached tho Fenians In Paris tron) Pain for months afterwards, it was generally believed that the deaert chief had refusod all overtures, A telegram in cypher from Cajro, however, at last came fa hand, statjng %t succeeded. • Preparations were immedia* tely begun in Chicago to muster an 1 Irish Legion' for service with the Mahdi. Up, wards of 600 Irish-Americans offered themselves as volunteers, and an expedifcionwas being rapidly organised when the (lews rescued America that the Glad, stone Cabinet, had ressqlyed tq withdraw the troops (win Upper Egypt, The expe. dition was thereupon countermanded, It may he remembered that at the recent lrjsh revolutionary convention it was determined to send one or two delegates, jf possible, tq the MaW's camp t(i furnish that perqqnage , with dynamite to be usetl against the British, One notorious dynamiter was sent to the Soudan; byt qn reaching Cairo he was Uisaqaqod from going furtherowing tq tha decision taken by the Cabinet in tho Mahdi's regard, Oliver Tain to greatly esteemed by tho Irj§h revolutionists ; and it was hoped that from his sympathy with the cause of Irish National independence and hja experience in campaign work, ho would be able to render important servioe to any movement direeted from the Continent against England," ;