THE SOUDAN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 147, 27 May 1885, Page 2

THE SOUDAN.

The Vienna correspondent of the Daily News gives a new version of the incidents which led to the fall of Khartoum and General Gordon's death. From a Roman Catholic prießt, writing from Cairo on the 2nd of March, he learns that the massacre at Khartoum was beyond description cruel. A letter from Father Viceniti, at Dongola, which a special messenger conveyed to Cairo, states that the Mahdi's relations walked about there freely, and kept him informed about everything they observed. Through these relations the fall of Khartoum was known m Dongola four days before the newt; reached Korti. The letter also Btates that the rebels .-made a thick coil of fceK;:-Biph wires and stretched it across thr nvw under water. Two •teatuers passe i ih, and fchiee of the five Gordon .sent Ji.*-' to turn back. By their return, they <i: -'..>ura<;ed;i-he soldiers at Khartoum. On-, native' colonel said to Gordon : " Hun; we most starve. I will leave Khartoum with the soldiers and steamers, and will ni?h,t the Mahdi m a desperate battle. We <will triumph or die." Gordon agreed. The colonel went to Omdurman, and surrendered the army to the Mahdi. After that the rebels went m steamers, took the city, and imprisoned General Gordon m the church. A detailed letter from a nun m Omdurman was daily expected at Cairn