Connecticut western news., 1885-02-25

A dispatch dated 'In the Field, Feb. 12," | states that 600 Arabs were killed in Tuesdays | fight.
 1 In the Arab camp near Dulka Island, which was deserted soon after the fight, there was | found 8 copy of official document addressed to "The Faithful by Fl | Mahdi The document is in the form of an encyelical letter, and states that the | Prophet took khartoum by storm on the 26th i of last month; that he had killed the traitor | Gordon and had captured his steamers. The document ends with the words: "El-hamdu | hllah tayyib." (PraiSe be to God.) aoRDoS's DIARY.
 The diary kept by Gen. Gordon in Khar- | toum, with entries mp to Dec. 10, 1884, is said | to be in possession of the English Govern | mept. The Conservative papers charge the | Government with suppressing this diary and | letters from Gen. Gordon, in which that officer said that he sent Gen. Stewart away from | khartoum to save his (Stewarts) life, intend | ing himself to meet death at Kkartoum, as he | knew no help would reach there in time to | rescue him. When Parliament assemblies, the | production of all dispatches of the Govern | be demanded.
 THE FALL OF KHARroUM. A telegram was received at the War Office | from General WolSeley, in which that officer | sends an account of the fall of khartoum as 1 given by & native who was an eyewitness to the entrance of the rebels into the town. khartoum, this informant says, was entered | by Fl Mahdi's forces at daybreak on the morn- | ing of January 26. General Gordon was killed | by yolley from Arab rihemen while he was | on his way from his headquarters to the Aus l trian consulate. The Austrian Consul was killed In his residence, and the Greek Consul is held a prisoner by the Mahdi. | It is now settled that General Graham, with his staff will leave London for Cairo, going by way of Brindisi. Upon his arrival at Cairo | he will meet General Stephenson, General | Dolmer and other military officials in council, and will subsequently, proceed to Suakim. The | expectation of the war officials Is that the | forces which are to start from Suakim will reach Berber, if the march proves successful, | by April 25. The government has decided to i accept the offer of 6 contingent from New l South Wales to cooperate in the Soudan ex- pedidon.
 | REVOLT IN HARRAR. dispatch from Assab Bay states that the l Somai natives have revolted against the 1 Egyptian government in Harrar, which is the most important territory in the Somah region | and was annexed by Egypt during the reign of Ismail Pacha. The Italian traders and colo nists in Harrar have made a claim upon the | Italian government for protection.
 aoRDoN's BETRAYER. | Abdul Ferim, who was one of Gen. Gordon's servants, gives his history of the fall of Khar- toum. He says that Farag, upon whom Gen. | Gordon relied implicitly, was really tue person who delivered Khartoum over to Fl Mahdfs | troops. When they entered the city it was Fa- 1 rag who prevented the garrison from firing upJn them. The story that Farag had once l been slave and that Gen. Gordon had se- | cured his liberation, and that when he subse- | quently entered Gordon's service the latter deceived into mistaking Farag's zeal for evil l dence Of gratitude, IS corroborated. He says that when Gordon made Farag military com mandant he used to receive letters from Fl Mahdi. When Gordon would ask about this correspondence Farag would say they were un- important, and Gordon apparently took him | at his word.
 THE MASSACRE.
 Concerning the massacre at Khartoum, Ab- ! dul Ferim states that General Gordon's clerk and the chief clerk of the arsenal were killed | Fl Mahdi did not enter Khartoum until the | third day after it's equalization. He inspected the city and then returned to Omdurman, | where he remains. After General Gordon fell l Abdul Ferim says, the Arabs killed his clerk | and nine others with spears. The others who were at the time with Gordon escaped. The cavass declares that with the exception of the attack in which these murders were committed | there was no fighting in khartoum. During the attack, however, all the Europeans and | most of the notables were killed. While the attack was in progress the male inhabitants of | the city joined the insurgents. Abdul states 1 that no women or children were killed, and 1 that all who submitted to the invaders and sur rendered their valuables were permitted to de- | part unharmed.
 | It was reported that Fl Mahdi ordered Farag to be hanged, and that the Prophets soldiers | plundered khartoum, killing all the Greeks in | the arsenal and iberating all the prisoners, except the Greek Consul, Nicolai and doctor. | Abdul Ferim says that Fl Mahdi has 0,000 good fighting men, who, however, be thinks, have been somewhat scared at the results of the battles at Abu Ilea, Gubat and kabbabish. Numbers of Arabs are deserting from Fl | Mahdis forces at Met9mneh.
 A sheik reports that there are much sickness | and disaffection among the Prophets troops who are alleged to be tired of the war and de- sirious of English protection. The sheik says that the Arabs now respond slowly to Fl Mahdi's levies for troops.
 Lord Wolseley remains at Korti- There ap- pears to be no prospect of an immediate de- parture on his part for the front
 Lord Avonmore Is dead. He died of enteric fever at kirbekan, the scene of the recent bat tie in which General Earle lost his life.
 General Sir Herbert Stewart who was wound ed at the zareba fight near Gubat on January 19, is growing worse from the effects of his wound. It is now believed that he will not recover.
 ENGLISH RETREATING.
 A telegram from Korti announces that the force under Sir Redvers Butler is in full retreat before the Mahdi-
 All that the battles of Abu Klea and Me temneh were fought to gain has been lost
 The wounded were sent on first, and now the ! l
 The attack on the entrenched Arabs stMe- temneh, about which so much preliminary | flourish was made, has been postponed sine die
 General Buffers story is that the increasing forces of the enemy first led him to the con- | clusion that such an attack would lead to dis aster. Without positive orders he would not
 Not only that, he feared that his entrenched camp near the Nile at Gubat could not stand
 long before the assault the Arabs would be
 able to deliver.
 He ordered his forces to break camp and re- treat with all speed first sending Lord Charles Beresford down to the steamers, whose ma chinery he so pulled to pieces that the Arabs
 could not use them. This was ordered ln the
 hope that Fl Mahdi would neglect to burn
 them if he could not make them go by steam. , Then the backward march was begun at
 night. The Arabs did not discover their de-
 parture and the march to Abu kea, where the , first halt was made.
 solve to retreat to Gakdul, another step in the | desert to korti. It Is not expected that he will stop retreatng unless forced to give battle until Korti is reached.
 Fl Mahdi, he says, left Khartoum with 8 heavy force An advance guard of 5000 had 1 arrived within five miles of Gubat when Gen | eral BullerIeft, and Fl Mahdi was only twenty ! miles behind them with 5000 picked men. They had battery of five Krupp heh-pieces, r and all were armed with Remington rifles. f General Lord Wolseley is said to have
 changed his plans. They are now said to be a
 concentration of all the forces at korti, includ-
 ing the regiments on their way from Egypt,
 before any advance is made on that line for
 Ebartoam. Earle. who is struggling to reach
 Berber is expected to establish himself there
 and await the arrival of the troops that are s now on tue way to Suakim.
 There is great gloom at the war office oyel
 the news.
 . rwn TRAIN SECTIONS COLLIDE.