HOW GORDON DIED.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XVI, Issue 2391, 18 February 1889, Page 4

HOW GORDON DIED.

The Mahdi's despatch to "his miserable "Wi KarameHa-el-Sheikh " on April 28, 1685, reporting the death of General Gordon (gays the Pall Mall Gazette) is one W the grimmest and most characteristic documents which have ever* issued" from the Soudan. The description of the coldblooded | massacre of fugitives who hM sought to escape by entering enclosures and shutting the doors is worthy of tha Arabs who fought under Mahommed and the ea*ly Calipl i;— " Xfaey were met face to face, and hewn: with swords or stabbed with spears till their cries were terrible, and they were cut to pieces at once there upon the ground, and then the troop* of Go!d Jejl upon the rest of the people who had shut the doiors fearing the satne fate, who were^llken up and: killed properly, aid there were none left remaining of them: but little children and free slaves,'* "The rest of the people were token up and killed properly." It is a phrase worthy of the fierce Soudan. The passage in which' the Mahdi records the death of Gordon should be engraved on the base of hw s|atute in the square, for better than anything else would it indicate the spirit of the great upheaval which he died in a vain attempt to check — 11 But as the enemy of God, Gordon, though we had warned him and talked kindly to him that he might return to God, yet be never did so, because his miserable state had been foreordained, and* also the access of his foolishness, before his fate was ended, and he was sorry for the sins he had sown in this world j and he was ifeasdvecj bjpGbd to the place of His wrath, vvhich is a bad place to remain in." A