THE MYSTERIOUS "WHITE PASHA.'

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 219, 17 September 1888, Page 2

THE MYSTERIOUS "WHITE PASHA.'

i A despatch (August 17) from Snakim to ! tho London " Times " say*?: *' R«pr»rtss copccrning; tho preg«jnce oi a white racai it. Bahr el Gaxele district ar© coafiroied. He is known as Aba Digna, und iiss a fores at enormous strength, ia<:iudiftK a isLirgs number of half-naked men, probably from tbe Nitim counfcry. This its a Bkpng poiub in favour of the idea that ike white nasn i« Stanley. The Khalifa pf KLtrtouut hail sent a force of 5,200 mon againebhim. The Negus of AbHßinia hud sworn to eaptttro Khartoum, and the Khxdi&i ie grcasly akirmed. A lafcur despatch cays tbafc ns£kes arriving at Sriakim report that eerersl white men accompany the " bearded, wkite Pasha," and if this be true there can be no doabt of tho ideottty of tho leader, ;» ; Emm Bey has no white foJlovsera. Pespatches from St. Paul de Loando, re--1 ceived at London; August 14th, state con- ! ceming Bartbelob's expedibion in search of Stanley that ab the end of June ntw« I reached the camp at Yambunga that the I first stages of Barttelot's march were well over, bat no information from Stanley had been received. It is officially announced thafctbe force* of I the Congo State bavo re-captured Stanley ffaliM St*Uio»>