The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-02-16
FOREIGN.
Rebels Abandon Their Position
Near Suakim.
General GOrdOn's Mission in the
S0udan.

CAIRO, Feb. 15.-The Black Watch Regi-
ment will start for Suez at o'clock to NOR
row morning. A medical inspection OF the
men was made, and only three per cent of
them were rejected. Many OF the latter wept
with vexation. Sir Evelyn Barring, the British
minister here. is i'll with chills and fever. El
Mahdi recently sent two mollahs to the ruler
of the Kafa Province, at the source of the Blue
Nile, to order him and his subjects to renounce
fetish worship and embrace Isamism. The
mollahs, after they had delivered Ell Mahdis
orders, were strangled by the natives.
The rebels have evacuated their position ten
miles from Suskim. Mr.. Wylde, of the intel
ligence Department, has Tetarned from Abys-
sinia. He reports that four tribes are hostile to
El Mahdi, and are awaiting an opportunity to
attack him. The Haeindowah tribe however,
the most powerful in Eastern Soudan, has de-
clared for El Mabdi, whose emissaries are also
stirring up a rebellion in Yemeh, Arabia.
LONDON, Feb. 15.-Papers have been pre-
seDted in Parliament regarding Gen. Gordon's
mission in the Soudan. Among them are Sir
Evelyn Baring's instructions to Gen. Gordon
with respect to the evacuation of the Soudan.
Gen. Gordon is given the fullest liberty to use
his own discretion in the premises. One hum
dred thousand pounds have been placed to his
credit, and additional funds will be granted il
necessary. Gen. Gordon's memorandum of
Jan. Q, in which he unfolds his plan for restor-
ing the petty Sultaus to their ancestral power,
leaving Ell Mahdi Out of the calculation, is al.
SO among the papers. He advises that the ar
senals be handed over TO the various Sultans.
His greatest difficulty will be in the disposal
OF the arsenals at Khartoum, Dongola and
Kassala, where there are no saltans, because
those places have sprung up since Mehemet's g
conquest. He advises that the final decision
be postponed until the nhabitants have been
consulted. Gen. Gordon believes that the bulk
of E Mshdi's troops at Ell Obeid will refuse to
cross the Nile. He thinks that only 1000,
will desert FL Mahdi if offered fair terms. He
considers that it would be an iniquity to re-
conquer the Soudan for the Khedive, as it
would be a useless possession on account of its
deadly climate.
CAIRO. Feb. 15.-Nubar Pasha, Prime Minis
ter, has received the following telegram from
Gen. Gordon:
81 am sending down the river many women
and children from Korosko. Send some kind
hearted European to meet them.'
England has refused Sir Evelyn Woods pro-
posal to sanction the cooperation of the Egyp-
tian army in the relief of Tokar, for the rea-
son that this army was raised for the defence of
Egypt outside of the Soudan England sp-
proves however of the dispatch of the Egy ptian
battalion, which is furnished with English off,
GERS, to Assonan.
LONDON, Feb. 15.-The Post this morning
publishes despatch from Berlin, which says:
German has three times insisted that England
should proclaim q protectorate over Egypt,
but England appears to be afraid Of irritating
France.
CAIRO, Feb. 15.-It is believed by officers
that Osman Dgma's forces are massing at
TOkar and alarm is felt because defenders of
the town are short of ammunition. General
Gordon telegraphs: 81 have formed commit
tee OF defence with well-to-do families of Ber-
Der but precpitated action may throw them
into the hands of the enemy. Patience alone
is requisite. He asks the authorities at Cairo
to send arms and ammunition to the Berber-
ines.
The rebels killed at Snkat 200 women. be-
sides number Of children.
Tho Tribes of Nlerv Submit 10 Russia-The
Indian Empire Threatened.
ST.. PETERSBURG, Feb. 15.-The St. Peters
burg Journal, in discussing the submission Of
the tribes of Merv, says: "Rnssia's relations
with England are based upon the mutual rec
ognition and just appreciation of each others
interest, which are perfectly reconciliable.'
LONDON, Feb. 15.-The German press says
the submission of the tribes of Merv to Russia
is Worse for England than the disasters in the
Soudan. It comments upon the remarkable
success of the Russian policy in Central Asia,
and says it is always directed against England.
II the Russians should stand again before the
walls of Constantinople, the English would be
disabled from commanding them to halt, as
they did in 1878. Russia will become the i'm
mediate neighbor of the British in India, and
will be able at any moment to create disturb
ance in Northern India. Now only Afghanis-
tan is between Russia and India. The FROM
tier tribes are always ready to invade the rich
Indian provinces, if only their rear is covered.
and this Russia can now guarantee.
The War in Tonquin.
LONDON, Feb. 15.-Advices from Pekin as.
sert that the Imperial Council severely blames
Gen. Tang for not having supported the Black
Flags at Sontay. The council has decided to
defend Bac N,nh to the uttermost,
A Heavy French Defalcation.
PARIS. Feb. 15.-The original of Tom Leris
in Danst's play "Rois en- Exile" has abscond-
ed. He is defaulter to the amount of e120,-
600.
Foreign Notes.
Brigands have captured a judge and some
other officers of Monastir on the Albanian
frontier.
Five thousand volunteers are being enrolled
In Paris to start for Tonquin in March.