Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-12-17

THE sOUl IAN CAPrIyEs.
Emin and stanle. Likely to be Sacri-
feed by the EDl 'lish Government.
LONDON, December 16th-In the House
OF Commons last evel ing, Lord Randolph
Churchill asked wheth er the reports of the
capture OF Emin Pasha and Stanley were
true, and whether the Government would
negotiate with Osman d. gna fo1 the release
OF the Europeans at Khl rtoum before the
beginning of hostilities
Geschen replied that the information re-
celved by the Government was so uncer-
tain that it would be impoA ible to suspend
operations for the relief of S uakim during
the many weeks that would elapse before
the late OF the explorers co Md be ascer.
tanned.
STANLEY, or CAssArl.
LoNDoN, December 16th.-Ir will be re-
membeIed that Mohammed Bir1i, a trader
who took supply of provisions to Emin
Pasha, and left Emin in the company of
an Italian named Captain Cassati with a
store of ivory, was attacked by the King
of Unroyo, VINO believed these men to he
charged with the business of carrying on
negotiations between Emin Pasha and the
King OF Uganda. Mohammed BiTri was
killed, and Captain Cassaii sent back to
Waddelai, all their ivory being taken by
the King of Unroyo. 1t is believed to be
quite probable that the white man whom
Osman Digna reported had been captured
By the Mahoi is Captain Cassati.
The Emin Relief Committee sent run
ners out from Suakim four months ago TO
inquire INTO the reported appearance of q
White Pasha in the Soudan, and they have
not yet returned. 1t is clear that Osman
Dlgna's news Is not so widely known as
news of such consequence would naturally
be. Altogether, though 1t is admitted that
the situation is serious, a hopeful feeling
still prevails that Stanley at least is still
safe.
The date 1853" is stamped upon the
cartridge shells that accompanied Osman
Dlgna's letter announcing the capture of
Emin Pasha and white traveller.
DOUBT ABOUT STANLEY.
BRUSSELS, December 16th.-The Belgian
Consul at Suakim telegraphs to his Govern
ment that the military authorities there be-
heve the story that Emin Pasha was cap
tured, but are in doubt about the capture of
Stanley.
EVIDENCE OF sTANLEY's CAPTURE.
LONDON, December 16th.-There is little
room for doubt that the news commune
Gated by Osman Digna is substantially cor
rect, and that Emin Bey and Stanley are
prisoners in the hands of the Mahdi at
Khartoum. No other explanation can be
given OF the fact that the Khedives letter
10 Emln Bey, sent through Stanley, is in
the hands of the Mahdi, as it is not likely
that it would have been voluntarily sur
rendered to any of the Mahdis followers.
1t must therefore have been taken from him
or from Emin Bey. Both may still be
alive, or they may have shared the fate of
Gordon.
LATER-THE WORST CONFIRMED.
SUAKIM, December 16th.-Khalita's letter
to Osman Digna states that steamer ex-
pedition to the Equator, commanded by
Osman Saleh, on arriving at Lado had
Emln Pasha and white traveller delivered
to them in chains by Emin's officers and
troops.
ONE WHITE TRAVELLER STILL AT LARGE.
Osman Saleh, in his letter to Khalifa.
stated that he reached Lado on October
l1th, and that the Khedive had sent a
white traveller, named Stanley, with let
ter telling Emin 10 go with Stanley, and
Offering The remainder of the force the
option OF going to Cairo or remaining.
They refused TO enter the Turkish service,
and gladly received Osman Saleh. He
heard that another traveller had visited
Emin, but had gone, ard he was searching
for him.
OPINIONS OF THE GERMAN PRESS.
BERLIN, December 16th.-The Ffeisiaraiqe
Zeituag and other newspapers argue that if
Osman Dignas reports are true the Wiss-
man expedition will be useless. Some
journals argue that it would take ct least
four months to cover the distance which
the reports must travel from Lado, and
that therefore they must be false.
NOT BELIEVED AT sUAKIM.
LONDON, December 16th.-A dispatch
from Suakim 10 the Times SAYS: The ma
tives do not believe that the equatorial
provinces have submitted to the Mahdi. If
they had, the natives say, proclamations to
the people OF the Emma territory and other
official acts of the Mahdi would have been
made public, and the surrender of Suakim
would have been demanded. A coast
guard steamer, which just arrived from the
south, beard nothing of the alleged capture
OF Emin.
STANLEY PROBABLY SAFE.
BERLIN, December l6th.-Herr Merensky,
Chief of the African Missions, thinks
that Emin may have been cap
tured, buI not Stanley. 1t is
more than likely, he said, that the white
traveller referred TO by Osman Digna is
Captain Casali. the Italian explorer.
Lieutenant Wissman has received no
counter orders as yet with regard TO his
relief expedition.
BRITISH OFFICIALS NOT CONVINCED.
LONDON, Decem Ger 16.h-The general
assumption that Henry NJ. Stanley is a
prisoner in the hands of the Arabs of the
Soudan has not extended to the officials Of
the British Imperial East African Com
pany, who, including Sir Francis De Win
ton and William McKihnon, express a be-
lief in the explorers safety and his ultimate
return to civilization. They say the proofs
of his capture furnished by 0sman Digna
are insufficient, illogical and contradictory.
The Uganda missionaries make no men
ton of the Mahdis alleged victory The
British Imperial officers are constrained TO
believe that no battle between the Mahdis
forces and those of Stanley or Emin, or
both, has taken place.
The last consignment of rifles sent to
Stanley were of the Remington pattern,
which the Snyder cartridges produced by
Osman Dgna could not be made to fit.
In spite Of the probable abandonment Of
the proposed Emin relief expedition, Lieu
tenant Nissman expresses a determination
to proaeed to Africa next month This
resolve is regarded as confirming the sus-
pieien that Germany is determined TO ex-
tend her influence in East Africa at all
hazards