The Portland daily press., 1885-01-24
THE OLD WORLD.
News by Gable from Different
Countries.



PARIS, Jan. pa battle has occurred in
UambOdia in which rebel band was dispersed
by the French, 20 insurgents we're killed and
the baggage of the band captured. Troops are
IN pursuit OF the leader who escaped.
Buried b. AIavanches of snow.
An avalanche occurred at Metuvlles in the
department. of Hautes, Alps and crushed
church in which number of persons were
worshipping. All were buried under the snow
as were also 20 men who were working in
marble quarry near by. A force is now en-
gagged digging out the victims of the disaster.
ROME, jap. 23.-Further details of the de-
vastation caused By avalanchss in the Pied
montese Alps are coming in slowly, the tele-
graph lines being prostrated and post roads
blocked by snow in many places. A report
from Bronasco states that nine persons were
Killed and many others. injured in that <illsns-
some cases the masses of ice and snow cover.
ing houses was twenty feet deep. Soldiers and
neIghbor1ng villagers are laboring with des-
perate energy to rescue the survivors. Scores
OF dead bodies have been taken out and In
many cases they bear no marks of injury show.
ing that they must have been suffocated, and
many survivors have been rescued who
had been imprisoned in narrow and partly
wrecked cabins for several days, together with
the corpses OF their relatives, who had been
killed. Relief trains have been sent from
Turin with food and clothing for the sufferers.
Egypfs Affairs.
LONDON, Jan. % The war office has re-
celved no news concerning General Stewards
advance since the account of the battle on
Saturday. This absence of news causes con-
siderable anxiety. Gen.Stewart is in the desert
where he has taken up an intrenched position
to await reinforcement from Gen. Wolseley.
Deserters from the rebel lines state that the
Mahdi's officers consider the affair at the Abue
Klea wells drawn battle. The Arabs were
neither routed for pursued and fell back in an
orderly manner and were not in the least de-
moralZed by the outcome of the enlargement
and they recovered themselves so quickly and
effectively that Gen. Stewart dared not move
and was compelled to entrench himself on the
scene of conflict. Government officials dis
credit the information conveyed in the above
private despatch.
The Times, Telegraph and Standard have
not received reports OF the battle at Abu Klea
although they had special correspondents in
the field, and this fact increases the anxiety
concerning the fate of General Stewart. The
belief has become prevalent that the battle at
the wells was more severe than the govern
ment will admit. There is an impression that
the official reports were colored at thewarIofice
aud that special dispatches were intercepted by
the press censors because they contained infor-
nation which would throw an Objectionable
light on the affair
Officials at tue war Office believe Wolseley
may find it imperatively necessary to reinforce
the troops now operating against the Mahdi in
the Soudan by draft of men from the British
army of occupation in Lower Egypt. At the
same time they are afraid to allow the army of
occupation TO be seriously weakened, and they
are accordingly preparing for transportation of
troops from Malta, Gibraltar and home depots
to Alexandria to take the place of those who
may be sent to the Soudan.
Gable Notes.
1t is officially announced that Emperor VIII
liam has entirely recovered from his illness.