The bee., 1884-01-19
FOTeiQu,

The French press bitterly attack Englan
for abandoning the large section of country
known as the SDudan TO FL Mahdi, the False
Prophet
Two THOUSAND AnEamites attacked a
French post, which was held by fifty ma
iines- After several hours hard fighting
the enemy retire1, with the loss of 100 in
killed and wounded.
DURING fire near Hanoi, in Tonquin,
the French artillery magazine was blown up
and large Cuantity of shells and munitions
Tor the Freach feet was destroyed. Several
French art llerymen and ten auxilliaries
were wounded
SIXTY THOUSAND Italians took part in
pilgrim &c TO the tomb OF the late King Vic
tor Emanuel at Rome.
AURELIAN SCHoLL, n prominent Partisan
Journalist, and Count Albert de Dion, gay
and festive French nobleman. have fought
DIRE, in which the former was wounded in
the side.
EIGHT persons were killed or injured at
a fire III the barracks of Braga. Portugal
THE French losses at the capture of Sontoy
are otficia ly stated to be four officers killed,
eleven seriously andeieven slightly wounded
and seventy-seyen men killed and 231
wounded.
GENERAL CHINESE" GoRDAN has resigned
his commission in the British army and en-
gagged with the Belgian government TO snp-
press the slave trade on the Congo, Africa.
FHTY-sIx steamers at Marseilles. France
were abandoned by their crews, who had
gone on a strike.
HUGO SCHENCKE, a resident of Vienna,
has confessed TO havin5 murdered and robbed
four girls whom he had promised TO marry.
He also murdered his aunt and niece, and
had an eccomplica, who was captured.
SEVEN men were killed and twelve injured
by an explosion Of fire damp in a coal mine
at Arras, France.
THE Viceroy of Canton has issued a pro-
clamation calling upon the people to repel the
French inva lers. Catholic missionaries are
being arrested in China and threatened with
death.
TIE insurrection under the leadership of
Fl Mahdi, the False Prophet, has spread
from Upper Egypt to Lower Egypt. Col
onel Coetlogan, commander of the khedive's
forces in the city of Khartoum, was directed
by the khedive to evacuate the place. The
Egyptian prime minister teegraphed from
Cairo an order that all the Christian popu-
lace should leave khartoum under guard
of troops. to prevent their being maSSacred.
The forces of Ell Mahdi which were march
ing on khartoum were estimated at over
10000 Numerous Arab she.khs have de-
clared for El Mahdf
Four THOUSAND unemployed persons held
a meeting III Paris and listened to speeches
favoring an armed revolution.
SWINE for breeding purposes imported
into Canada from the United States are to
be quarantined by the Canadian authorities
twenty-one days.
The steamer Huai Quen, from Shanghai
for Hong Kong, has been wrecked on the
HE Shan Islands. Five natives were saved,
but nothing was known of the rest of the
natives
GERMANY and Frances prohibition Of
American pork is causing considerable dis
cussion in those countries, a leading German
professor and a prominent French journal
declaring that such prohibition is without
reason and unnecessary.
4 Ell MAHDI's rebels in the Soudan have cap
tured and burned the town of Helouan.
! CHINESE pirates made night attack upon
Namiinh. Many persons were killed and
numerous houses burnel