ZEBEHR INTERVIEWED.
THE FORMER POTENTATE OF THE SOUDAN GIVES IIIS VIEWS OF THE EXPEDITION. Cairo, Egypt, April 23. I had an interview to-day with Zobehr Pasha, the former actual ruler of the Soudan, who during twenty-three years of political imprisonment in Cairo continued in such touch with the southern tribes that in the campaign of ISSS he was imprisoned at Gibraltar. Zobehr Pasha stated that the recent rumours of civil strife among the Khalifa’s forces are much more serious than is appreciated here, and that even the army itself is mutinous. Ho bitterly condemns the harsh rale of tho Khalifa, and as he is perhaps tho only person in Egypt in actual touch with Soudanese sentiment ho predicts that this civil outbreak will bo Egypt’s best ally. A personal letter from tho former Sirdar states his opinion to tho effect that tho present British Government will encounter such opposition in financing tho Soudan campaign that it will bo abandoned. 'lbis view, however, is not regarded as possible.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1265, 28 May 1896, Page 37
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