The Springdale news., 1888-07-27
THE WHITE PhSHA.

 Tho specuIations Concerning the White
 Pssha Of Bahr Fl Ghazei Point fo stan. ieyas the Mysterious sIndividusl-onheisi News Can Not Long be Delayed, ana '
 An1iously Awaited.
 LONDON, July 23.-Sir Francis De- Winter, president ot the Emin Bey relief association, in an interview regarding the statement of Sir Richard Burton, the African explorer, that the white pasha who has arrived in the Bahr el Ghazel province is Emin Bey and not Henry M' Stanley, said: ''rhe last authoritative news we received stated that Em1n bey was at the Wadelai on the Nile, and we know that Stanley left the Congo ca ms march toward Emin. just year ago, ana in few days Stanley had vanished from the sight of the civilized world. Stanley hoped to be in communication with Emin Bey the 18th Of last August. In a letter dated November ?, Emin stated that up to that date he had heard nothing whatever of Stanley or his expedition. Recently, certain Arabs, returning from the mountainous region of the Upper Aruwimi. told the commander at the camp of Yambunga that they had met de- serters from the expedition, among them being two Soudenese, who formed part ot the escort. Other information Is said to have reached Yambunga from deserters, of whom one had returned to village only a few leagues distant from the camp But in neither case have the des- erts themselves been seen, and it may be taken for granted that the Arabs, who want to reserve Central Africa exclusive ly for themselves as a kind of human game preserve. would gladly seize any
 tad news about the fate of the expedition. Stanley undoubtedly intended, if he met with no serious obstacle, to relieve Emin Bey first and then proceed to Khartonm to rescue the unfortunate European prisoners there. Now, unless this ''white pasha" story Is an absolute figment, the white pasha' can be no one but Stanley, but if it be Stanley, seme- thing extraordinary has happened. Stanley set out from Aruwimi last June for the Albert Nyanza. When he got there, he meant to put his steel whaling boat together and to set out northward by water for Wadelai. Now he has turned up in province some hundreds of miles to the northward of that place, and 1n- stead of marching five hundred miles, he must have marched something like thousand What has happened? When the bearers of the last authentic news from Stanley left the expedition last August he was swamPed within eight days march of the Mabode country, and advancing directly towards the western shore of the Albert Nyanza. He was only about two hundred miles from that lake nearly year ago. The lake was his goal, and now we hear Of him in the Bahr Fl Ghazel. We can only suppose that he found the country be- tween the Upper Aruwimi and the Albert Nyanza nothing but a vast morass, and absolutely impossible. Last summer Emin sent two parties of ten men each to the Albert Nyanza to get news of Stanley. They have found none, or Emin would have given 1t. It looks, therefore, as if Stanley had been obliged to change his object altogether, and had turned northwest from the Ma bode country, instead of following the line he had previously taken, and press ing on towards the East What facts are known, therefore, point to the gen. eral conclusion that, after pushing east- northeast from Yambunga for some two or three hundred miles, Stanley found further progress impossible along that line. and set his face nerthwards. h. stead of coming upon Emin from tho south, he will come upon him from the north, but if he does ill the long run come upon him somehow, that will not mat tern
 Further information from Banana re- ceived late this afternoon tends to con- firm the report that Stanley is really on his way to KhartoHm + also appears that Emin Bey has left the neighbor hood of the Albert Nyanza and is advauc- ing to meet Stanley. The probability ef the success of Stanley in relieving Khar- toum is regarded with downright jealousy in military circles. Lord Charles Beres- ford, who took part in the disastrous Nile expedition, admits the possibility of the white pasha being Stanley, and in giving his reasons why an undiseiplined body, chiefly composed of natives, should be able to accomplish a feat which proved too much for the Nile expedition, said: ''It must be borne in mind that since that expedition great changes have come over the state of Africa. Then the whole sur rounding country was frantically devoted to the Mahdi Now, if we are to believe the reports which have recently reached Cairo from the European cap tives and from information de- rived from other sources, great dissatisfaction against the false prophet prevails, and at the first approach of hostile force his followers are said to be prepared to go over to the enemy. Ia my opinion, if the white pashs IS really Stanley he has undoubtedly some time since captured Khartoum, and officlal news from him can not much longer be delayed