Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-27
NO WORD FROM STEWART
GEN. WOLSELEY PROCESSES
NOT TO BE WORRIED.

/ An Announcement that He will Press
Forward in Person Considered Omi-
nous Italian Troops said to be on
the Way to Cooperate with the Brit
ish FOrces-The Two Governments to
Stand Together Against EurOpe's OPP
position.
! LONDON, Jan. 26.-Intense anxiety is felt for
| the fate of Gen. Stewart. The War office had
! received no further tIdngs from him up to
noon to-day. Dispatches were expected every
hour, and the officials made no effort to con-
ceal their deepening disappointment as they
| still failed to come. Alarming rumors were
| flying about the city concerning the
fate of the brave fellows who fought
at Abu Klea Wells, and then dis
appeared in the desert beyond. APP
prehensiOn that a serious disaster has Oc-
| CURED was gaining ground at noon. The
| transport Deccan has been ordered to be in
| readiness to convey a regiment to Malta, and
| from there to Egypt, if occasion requires. A
dispatch from Alexandria to the Exchange
| Telegraph Company, SAID that Gen. WOlselev
has sent reinfOrcements from Korti to Gen.
! Stewart, and that he himself Is about to press
| forward
ITALIAN AID PROMISED.
Dispatches from Rome state that reports
are current there which say that the Italian
forces recently dispatched to Assab will assist
the British forces in SOudan as soon as the.
shall have landed. According to these re
ports it will make no difference with their
future course whether they land at Assab or
at rome other point. The cOmman-
der of the expedition, it is as
serted, had sealed orders which
be was not to open until nine days after he
LETT Naples. Other dispatches from Rome,
mainly to the Exchange telegraph COMPANY
say that unusual activity is now noticeable at
the military and naval bureaus. This, 1t is
said, fOreshadOws a possible mobilization of
Of
ports. The same authority says that SignOr
Mancini, Minister of Foreign Affairs, decl ares
that Italy aud England viii hereafter CO.
operate IN the Mediterranean and Red seas.
The lFOnclad Principe AmadeO, which was
escortlng the Assab expedition, is ashore at
Port Said.
DISPATCH FROM WOLsELEY.
At 2:50 O'Clock this afternoon the War Office
made public the contents of a dispatch re-
celVed THIS afternoon from Gen. WOlseey at
hOrtl. lie says that he has not received any
further news from Gen, Stewart. lie assures
the government that in his opinion there is
no cause for anxiety in this long absence of
intelligence. The first news of the battle at
Abu hlea. the dispatch says, which was re-
celVeu at kOrtl four days after the fight was
brought in by Bashi BaZouks The last of
these who were following Gen. stewards
army left in the little band that carried the
story right across the desert. No information
but that brought by these Arabs has yet
reached hOru. Whatever additional reports
Gen. Stewart may have dispatched Gen.
Wolseley says, must come by camel courier
with an ordinary British escort.
a special dispatch from Rome to one of the
London papers to day states that it is under
stood In semi official circles that Italy is pre-
pared whenever the emergency arises to send
25,OOO soldiers to Egypt to assist in the sup
port of British authority there.
NO NEWS UP TO MIDNIGHT.
LONDON, Jan. y, A. NJ Up to midnight
on Monday no tidngs had been received at
the " ar office feOm Gen. Stewart. The sud
den decision of Gen. Wolseley TO go to the front
is considered ominOus.