THE RELIEF OF EMIN BEY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2549, 16 March 1887, Page 2

THE RELIEF OF EMIN BEY.

For more than three years and a 1 ~ half Dr Emia and bhroonirades hare been practically ■ isolated-fronj. the, civilised world.. They,are afc .T^idyly r near Qondokoro, on &, Me, "about 900 miles beyond Khartoum. .Savag* hordea swarm about them; a ijngle tribe having an army ot 100,000 men .largely armed with muskets... Againafc terrible odds the br'aye German niters* list hold ont, as. did. His .leader, Gordon, year after, year, wearily looking to.Europe for.hejp,-whichhgsoot yet come. GnJaapary lit ne wrote that he was. in greafe etraita, but hoped td hold out a little longer.-InAptU he wrote again, sending' hi« letter by Dr Junker.\ His collection, of apeei- . mens bf;natu»r. history had-all be« lost, but ha had'preserv'ed the valuable resulta;; of his.'.'. gepgriphW' work On July. The wrote for the third time expreaaing little Hopo of isscne, bat declaring that ha; would atand, ; Jiy km post till the Government removed him, oruhtil'.'.be could. prpvidt for. the safety of the he had .saved from ; the wyags of theskvs trade. Since that daU nO'Word has come irom him, the hosfclb, attitude ' of the powerful 6f Uganda ... having'blookfldithe last'line-ef sotttJ,,' munioation. "'/ '" : »i iA '-'■':'. .. go tho situation ittmd'sl;: JL .myriad of blood-thirsty held at bay by a handful .of European*, and '"%> fer faithful negro troopi, of whom Dr Emin says that they l are trusty, and abieiri the highest: degree—"a- raca second to none'incapacity,'»n^|Melting many othersjitii unselfth'neiJs-!': But the end .must .cbmei,- ijjn'd 'gooii j and \, unless a relief corps cuts, jti way in, there » but one er.oV possible.;; Tha Hritish Go»ernnierit alone can provide the material force, and Mr Stanley cm 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 at Wadyly-NJJribhmv; /'...)