NEWS FROM STANLEY.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXV, Issue 270, 28 November 1889, Page 2

NEWS FROM STANLEY.

INTERESTING PARTICULARS. TREACHERY OF EMIN BEY'S CHIEF . OFFICER. f (UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.) London, November 27. Stanley writing to the Emm Bey Relief Committee says that after waiting at Kavallai forty-four days to enable Selim, Emm Bey's chief Lieutenant to collect the remainder of the refugees from Wadelai, he began to fear that Selim was secretly assembling a force of seven hundred rebel soldiers with the object of seizing his ammunition. He therefore decided to start on the tenth of April. In consequence of the morbid decision of Emm Bey and Casati to leave Kavallai, Stanley says he was compelled eventually to coerce their followers to march. Two days later Stanley was taken ill, and a Halt was made, and it was not until the Bth of May that another start was made, although Selim tried hard to obtain a further delay. Proof of Selim's treachery was afterwards discovered, when Stanley ascertained that the officers of the Egyptian troops m his camp, who had accompanied Emm Bey from Dufnila were conspiring with Selim. After a second tart from Kavallai a straight course was travelled to Lake Victoria Nyanza. The party suffered severely from fevers and incessant conflicts with ' Waransado. During the month of July alone one hundred and forty- one of the party were dead and missing. Stanley describes Semliki as a splendid river, and he was able to ascertain that Mount Ruwerzori is a snow clad extinct volcano, 1900 feet m height. He also discovered Lake Albert Edward Nyanza, one of the Nile basins. The party encamped at Uzinja on the 17th August. Stanley expressed great indignation that only 600 instead of 10,000 left Wadelai, and he blames Emm Bey for not acting with greater proniptitude. Stanley, it is expected, will reach England about the end of January.