THE LATEST.
(Received February 18, 11.40 a.m.) Curo, February 15. Major-General Gordon ai rived at Stanley, an important caravan station in Nubia, and within one bundled miles of Khartoum. Telegrams from Suakim state that the rebels are massing in the neighbourhood of To Kar, and it is fully expected that an attempt will be made to capture the town befoie the Biitish forces which have teen despatched to its assistance can arrive there.
Activity of the Rebels. Increased activity is being manifested limong the followers of El Mahdi in the South-east, and Kassalar, an important iown near the northern fiontier of Abyssinia, has been invested by the rebels.
[Received February 18, 2 p.m.] 400 Women and Children Massacred at Sinkat. Cairo, February 16. From enquiries which have been made into the circumstances attending the fall of Sinkat last wce'c, it has been ascertained that besides the garrison of the town and the male inhabitants, two hundred women and the same number of children were massacied by rebel fanatics.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1813, 19 February 1884, Page 3
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168THE LATEST. Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1813, 19 February 1884, Page 3
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