EGYPT.
(by electric telegraph.—copyright, London, December 19. | Sin Charles Dilke in a letter in tho | Speaker, opposes the sudden evacua* j tion of Egyot by the British, but I suggests that French troops Rhould \ be sent to Port Said, thereby compel* j ling a conference of the two countries ; resultiug in the retirement of both [ France and England, or a joint occu- ] pation, and England relying on tho ; Cape route to tho colonies. i Cairo, December 18. | . 'fhe monk who escaped from Kharj touni states that Slaten, Bey is at , | Omdurihan, and though ho is free, is I closely watched to provide against his j escape. j Slaten Bey during the Soudan War ] was Governor of Oarfur, an extensive I territory belonging to Egypt to tho j westward of Kordofan, but his supI plies becoming exhausted, ho yielded j to tho Mahdists in order to avoid I bloodshed and was carried away j prisoner.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3033, 22 December 1891, Page 2
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