THE WAR IN SOUDAN.

Kumara Times, Issue 2583, 2 October 1884, Page 2

THE WAR IN SOUDAN.

[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

ARRIVAL OF COL. STEWART FROM KHARTOUM.

LORD WOLSELEY ON THE ROAD TO SOUDAN. FAMINE AND STARVATION AT KHARTOUM. HOPE OF RESCUE ABANDONED. COWARDICE OF THE BESIEGED GARRISON. TEN THOUSAND MEN JOINING THE REBELS. (Received October 2, 0.55 a.m.) Cairo, September 30. Telegrams from Dongola announce the arrival there of Colonel Stewart and his staff, from Khartoum. General Lord Wolseley has arrived at Esueh, a town on the Nile, one hundred miles north of Assouan. ! [

[special to press association.] London, September 29. Information has been [received from Khartoum which discloses a deplorable state of things. Starvation is staring the besieged garrison in the face, there being barely sufficient supplies to last until the end of September, and everything in the way of provisions are being sold at famine prices. When the food gives out it is expected that the fall of Khartoum is certain. All hope of beiDg rescued by the British relief expedition has beeu abandoned by General Gordon, who has resolved that he will never desert the women and children. The negro troops fight bravely, but the rest are the veriest cowards, a few Arab horsemen being sufficient to drive hundreds of them back. Ten thousand men in Khartoum are joining the rebels, who are agaj n besieging the town. Gordon has Promised freedom to the slaves of the rebels who remain in Khartoum.