EGYPT.
(Received February 13, 11.40 a.m.) Caiho, February 12. Telegrams are to hand this afternoon from Souakim announcing that Sinkat, a town which has been besieged by the rebels for several weeka past, has fallen. The Governor (Tewfik Bey) ordered all the forts to be exploded and the guns spiked, and when this work had been completed yesterday he made a sally from the place with his garrison, "numbering 600 men. They were met outside the town by an overwhelming force of rebels, who Bhowed no mercy, and massacred the whole of their victims. The latter were reduced to starvation before they sallied from Sinkat.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6782, 14 February 1884, Page 3
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