Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-24
FOREIGN NEWS.
The War in the Soudar.

! LONDON, January 22d.-The War Office
has received no news concerning General
Stewart advance since the account of the
{ battle on Saturday The absence of news
causes considerable anxiety. The heads of
the War Department met at noon to-day
with Earl Morley, Under Secretary Of State
for War, presiding, 20 consider he situation.
STEWART REPORTED To BE SURROUNDED.
! LONDON. January 131-Private advices
received late this afternoon from korti as
sert that the rebels have surrounded Gen
eral Stewart in the desert. where he has
taken UP an intTenched position to await
reintorcements from General Wolseey
DeSerters from the rebel line state that
Mahdi's officers consider the affair At A buk-
: lea Wells drawn battle The Arabs were
neither routed nor pursued and fell back
III an orderly manner. not in the least de-
moralized by the outcome of the engage
ment. They recovered themselves so
quickly and effectively that General Stew
art dared not move and was compelled 10
intrench himself on the scene Of conflict
Government officers discredit the informa-
ton conveyed III the above private dis
patches.
STEWARDS LINE OF RETREAT THREATENED.
! PARIS, January 23d.-A dispatch TO Le
Paris, from Alexandria, says a report pre-
walls there that the rebels have surrounded
General Stewart, whose line of retreat is
threatened.
REBELS STRONGLY INTREYCHED.
! ALEXANDRIA, January 23d.-Private ad-
vices from the front state that the rebels
are strongly intrenched at Metemneh,
which port will be necessary for the Eng
lish before they can proceed to khartoum.
II is reported that the rebels collected at
Abu Hamed are prepared 10 resist General
! Earle.
THE FEELING AT THE WAR OFFICE.
LONDON, January 23d-The officials at
! the war office believe that General Wolselev
may lind it imperatively necessary to rein
force the troops now operating against
Mahdi in the Soudan by drafts 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. They are accordingly
preparing for the transportation of troops
from Malta, Gibraltar and home depots to
/ Alexandria, to take the place of those who
may be sent TO the SOudan.
, REPORTED DEFEAT OF GENERAL STEWART.
! LONDON, January 23d-A special from
/ Cairo says: a report was circulated to-day
10 the effect that General Stewarts troops
had been defeated and routed by Mahdi 5
forces. The report is very generally be-
Geved by the natives, who have assumed
/ such a threatening attitude that ball car
/ uidges were served to the British soldiers
! of the garrison.
| MAHDI SHORT OF PROVISIONS.
LoNDoy. January 23d.-The latest Arab
papers state that Mahdi is short of pro-
! visions, and has been forced to send d por-
3 -. .fT IL. L l. = M
report that he has 10000 troops at Omn-
| durman.
I he Italian Avalanches.
ROME, January 23d-Further details OF
: the devastation caused by the avalanches in
the PiedmOntese Alps are coming in slow
ly, the telegraph lines being prostrated and
/ places. 4 report from Bronasco states that
! nine persons were killed and many others
| injured III that village.
/ At Chiabrando, every house was buried,
, and in some cases the masses of ice and
/ snow covering the houses were twenty feet
deep. Soldiers and neighboring villagers
are laboring with desperate energy to rescue
the people. Scores of dead bodies have
been taken out. In many cases
they bear no marks of injury
showing that they must have been suffo-
Gated. Many OF the persons rescued have
been imprisoned in narrow and partly
wrecked cabins for several days, together
with the corpses of their relatives. Relief
trains have been sent from Turin with food
and clothing.
Turkey Won't Have 1t.
LONDON, January 23d.-The Tmkisl
Government has notified Italy that if sh,
attempts to carry out her reported inten
ton Of occupying Tripoi, she viii be op
posed by a Turkish army Of 10000 men.