New-York tribune., 1885-02-07

path of prudence and honor point 70 recaPsu.iIo .I
khartoum If we shirk this duty the lives OF thou
sands of British soldiers will have to be risXeo heio
after IN trying to retrieve the bunder. % tho
e Post says; "The mopsetrap policy pccsss or Ut
Mahdl appears to have had terrible success. ~
that the Mahdis calculation was 10 l,ile iao
British army INTO perllous position. Inc P1ssieg PG1ssi
question Of the moment Is: 'Can Lord "o'''i''
The DaiIy Ne,cs saws: awe hope the voice OF fac-
tion will be unheeded. The danger must DE hiet 10y OS
a national resolve. We must act instantly anu
singular coincidence attending the fall of y Khar .n
toum lies III the fact that Gordon s delehcc VI 'n0
city ended on his 6ftysecond birthday
PROCLAMATION BY LORD WOLsELEY.
HE WILL FULFILL GENERAL GoRDoNs PhoMi'h'-
REPORT TO THE GOVERNMENT
LONDON, Feb. THE following dispatch mas
just been received:
NEAR METEMNEH Feb. 6.-General Woiseley
has issued the following proclamation
To the nOtables and inhabitants of the Soudan.
England has sent me with an army to restore
peace, not to collect taxes or injure any one.
will pay you for all supplies and guarantee
to execute General Gordon's promises. Only those
deserving punishment at our hands will receive it,
I call upon YOU to submit and not listen to evil
advisers. Come into my camp and see my ofhcers
No one shall harm you either coming or returning"
General Wolseley reports to the Government: {:
although the Mahdis irreeulars are reported
to be gathering around the point
where the English were wrecked. no
suspicion of treachery is entertained
The wreck Of the steamers due to the hurried
retreat in the night and the altered current OF the
river, which had fallen two feet in a single day.
Some of our marksmen say that the enemy are lining
the earthworks on both banks of the river FOR two
miles north of KhaTtoum. They number al
together about 5000 of whom 1000 are
Indifferent riaeinen. tour. good shots from the
Sussex Regiment repeatedly sileuced one OF tae
MahdTs krupp guns. During tho darkheSs the
steamers slipped past the re els, shot the rapids
and arrived within sixty miles of the fort
when one of them grounded. The second stranded
twenty miles lower down, where Colonel
Wilson and the Sussex detachment
still remain. Colonel Wortley with three Eng giish
reached here at 3 o'clock this morning Teb-
ruary to- Sir Charles BerSciOrds steamer, with
twenty picked marksmen from the Royal
Rifles, started This afternoon to attempt 10
relieve them. Colonel Wort'cy had rowed forty
or fifty miles during the night. All of Colonel VIII
sons stores. guns and ammunition are IN
deep water aud beyond recovery. No lives
were lost by the wrccllIng of the stelmcrs, Colonel
Wilson's party having entrcnched themselves on
sandy island.
The steamers while going MP the river, Travelled
principally during the night, IN order To AVOID the
exceedingly hot fire. which ceased wren man
ter from the Mahdi to the English
officers, in which it stated that
khartonm had been captured r, without
INC uIiHS VI cHo'' I'M
aud General Gordon are now in the
MahdPs hands. Colonel Wilson has a,ccr-
tanned that Khartoum fell on the night
OF January u. Faraz Pacha and other EGyitlanl
commanders entered into secret negotiations with
the Mahdi TO get all the Egyptian
TgGPs WPs on one sGg q" Would a,f,e fG
the boats another would open the land way.
ON the third dav of the journey up
the river the natives shouted from the bank 10
General Wilson that Khartoum had faIicn. he
enemy were found cntIencned Oh the river bank.