Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-06

Soudan are generally retarded. Several
newspapers made application to the War
Office for permits to communicate instruc-
tons TO their correspondents, but have all
received a reply that General Wolseley has
sole authority in the matter.
COUNCIL At THE WAR OFFICE GENERAL
sTEPHENsON's ADVICE.
LONDON, February 5th-The council at
the War Office this evening decided to ad
wise the dispatch of 5000 troops to Suakim
Immediately.
General Stephenson telegraphs that 5000
men will be needed to clear the road TO
Berber, as the news of the fall of Khartoum
will induce the central tribes to Join Osman
Digna. General Stephenson also advises
that the present strength OF the troops in
upper and lower Egypt be maintained, and
that reinforcements be drawn from Eng
land and India.
TWO THOUSAND MEN MAssACRED-TIIE ENG
LIsH GARRISON.
CAIRO, February 5th-RumorS have
reached here that 1000 men were massa-
cred in Khartoum. The news of the disas-
ter has cast a gloom ever the entire
European colony of Egypt. The English
garrison now consists of l, 200 men at Alex
andria, }, $50 at Cairo, and $50 marines at
Suez. There are no forces at Port Said eX
cepting one gunboat. The man-ot-war
Monarch is at Alexandria.
RArIoNs AND MEN FOR THE FRONT.
LONDON, February 5th.-Orders have been
dispatched to Woolwich to Immediately
prepare 10 send a months rations and 5000
men for the khartoum expedition.
SAD BIRTHDAY-MIMTARY OPINION.
CAIRO, February 5th.-General Gordon's
defense of khartoum ended on the anniyer-
sary Of his tifty-second birthday.
The military opinion at Cairo is that the
whole force of the British army should be
directed toward the capture of Berber,
while Is 600 reinforcements from England
or India should land at Suakinl, to insure
retreat or to enable them to chastise the
rebels.
MORE FIGHTING.
MAssowAH, February 5th-Abdel Kader
Shekh of the Beniamer tribe, has arrived
here with excellent news from the besiegcd
garrisons in the interior He says the con-
voy of grain sent to Kassola will enable the
garrison to hold out q long time. Abdel
kader hopes, with the assistance of the
Government, to keep the road to
Kassola permanently open. The Haden-
dowas, who have been blockading it, have
gone to reinforce Osman Digna. 1t is
reported from Ghira, on the Settit river,
that the garrison made successful sOrtie
upon the Takroori tribe under Sheikh
Saleh, aided by three Abyssnian chiefs and
their followers. a great battle was fought
III the Gallabat country with a large force
of Baggara rebels, detached from Seenar.
After a severe struggle the Baggaras We're
utterly routed losing 5000 men and four
EmirS. one Of whom was a nephew to
Mahdi.
ASSISTANCE OFFERED.
LONDON, February 5th.-It is stated that
Commander Cameron, the African traveller,
hat offered to start Immediately for the
Soudan To assist the British in the cam
paign against the rebels. Orders have been
sent to Portsmouth Haven to begin fitting
out troop ships.
THE NEWS N PARIS.
PARIS, February 5th.-The news of the
khartoum catastrophe created an immense
sensation in this city. Lord Lyons, the
British ambassador. had a long interview
with the Prime Minister during the day.
NEW YORK JOURNALS OK THE BRITISH
REVERSE.
New YORK, February 5th.-Thc Post says
of the fall of Khart0um The situation
now presented to the British Government
and Lord Wolselev is well fitted to shake
the courage and confluence OF the Wlsest
and boidest. Nothing Ike 1t IN point OF
difficulty has presented itself 70 the British
statesmen since The rising III lndla IN 1891.
To retire from the field, leaving not only
Gordon but Khartoum in the cnemy's
hands. would damage the British military
prestige in & way which would exercise an
I,iications with foreign mowers and esnec-
iaIly tbc Envpt an complication. The en-
tarnrisc rs il now presents itself ia
WoIselev. is one of which he might well
say. rs Wolfe said when before Quebec. It's
difficulties are enough to aupal the stoutest
heart"
The C3mmeJcial saws Ell Mahdi's sue
cess, will doubtless swell his force enOr-
mouslv at once. and the problem of rcscu-
ing the rescuers promises to be not less
difficult than was that of rescuing Gordon.
1t is a melancholy story of incapacitv. mis-
management and disaster. If Gladstone's
government survives it. there must be a
measure of vitality in the Liberal party sur
passing ANYTHING Of the kind known 10
British political history.
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Gays ago was iorclply maze; Inc Esyp-
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without 4Vall' ana inc Egyptian garrison
was iorcel 10 Wlthdra". me NhedlVe mas
hotihed the f"r' OIL the Italian occupatloh-
DETAILS OF THE MASSACRE OF COLONEL
STEWART.
Io~Dox February 5tb -Advices from
Korti state that the sfol5er of Colonel
stewart steamer renorts that he left Khor-
toum in the steamer AbbesS with Stewart
TWO Furoncan Consuls Hasson Rev
tyve]vn Graaks and several natives Two
other steamers accommodation fhnm IN Rar-
her which nlacn tbev shnlIed Four Mo
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