Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1885-02-21 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

WOUNDED ATTACEED. COMMUNICATION THREATENED.  TIMES" TRIAGE. Komi, February 17, Midnight.-4 messenger attached to the Intelligence Department has come in six days from Nun, a place Shoot one day's journey from Khartoum. Ile corroborates the news of the fall of Khartoum and the death of General Gordon. The regular soldiers were marched out of Khartoum into the Njonnit camp, some of them being killed by the Turkish, who Bred on them as they left the town. All the Turkish soldiers were  ~ .... killed. , Nuorangar, commanding at Metemneh, sent , recently to the Mandi for gnus and ammunition, , saying that he could not fight the Eng/ish with I swords and epears. The Mandi replied, "Do not , fight; wait • while. If God will, I will come nod destroy the infidels." Some dervishes and Hassaniyehs are threatening I Alm Haifa on our line of commanioatione. I A convoy with wounded, under Colonel Talbot I left Gabut on the 13th inetant. When about nine , miles out they met some 5000 rebels, who were on 'their way to reinforce Metecuneb. A skirmish ' noosed and one man was killed, when the Light 1,. Camelry spewed, and the enemy retired. The !convoy reached Abe Klea on the 14th. General Stewart is doing well. Colonel Talbot would have atteoked the rebels had he not been hampered by the presents° of the ,wounded. The following from the London Telegraph cormspondent appeared on Wednesday : Aeu Ur, February 12. , (sill Korti, February 18,12 15 a.m.) I, General Gurdou'a trusty messenger. George, a well-known Khartoum Greek merchant, who for months past has been entrusted with all lottery 'passing to and from the besieged, and who has ' been living on board one of the steamers sent here, states that nearly all the native stories agree that General Gordon, on learning that he was betrayed, made a rash tor the mtigasine in the Catholic Mission building. Finding that the enemy were actually in posse.Sioll of the building by the %reedier:T. of Fans, , Goma Gu don returned to the Government Howe, I and was killed whist trying to reenter it. Some 'isay Mass shot, others that he was stabbed. The Malidia people were admitted to Khartoum , at ten o'clock on the night of Jan. 26th. '. George adds that the rebels masseored all the ' white people, men, women, awl children, throwing the bodies into the Nile, many of which corpses he and others saw whilet wtth Sir Charles Wilson's  party. The families of all the men on board General Gordon's steamsrs were also murdered. General Om don clearly anticipated his fate, for he wrote a lot of farewell letters during the month of January. The-e were cent off in a mail bag on board the steamer an! given to George, who ' , banded them over to Sir Charles Wilson on ' I, Januiry if. I - Among the lettere were one for his Pieter, and ' other. for his brother, for Captain 13rocklehurst, [ Lord Wolseley, and Sir Chashis Wilson. There I were also five complete monthly diaries of the siege of Kiiisrtoum, narrating all the events that had taken place since Colonel Stewart left him. In his loiter to Sir Cherie. Wilson, General Gordon mote that be hoped by God's will the Eoglieh would arrive in time to save him and others, bat feared they would be too late; that he knew he was 1 being betrayed, but was powerless to prevent it. , His information wm that Khartoum was to be surrendered on January 19th to the :Veldt. He could [get away if he wished to run, but refused to go, and [ would remain to the lest. As he would not permit [ himself to be taken prisoner, there wan nothing left bat death.