ITALY IN THE SOUDAN.
According to a London despatch of July 19 pitiful stories continue to reach ' the Italian Government concerning tho condition of Italian troops' at Massowah, The recent suicide of Colonel PaMi, • commander of the Garrison there, was due ,tp', ennui and despair, not to delirium, caused by .fever. He saw sickness andi
death daily increasing^mongthe troopsyin-epite • of all the efforts" of ~the~surgeons and extra santtaryprecautidn^a^d He' becaitfehopeless of" thasitu-ation'tif troops bemj£'betteie"a ! , J *ii(Hook 'his own' life' in i thd desperate. hQp'e J tnat' such a i death might open the eyes' of the'Hcm^e bfficials', 1 and -bause 1 'them <to i imitate the' ac'tiq'ti of tnfe English Government in evacuating
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Otago Witness, Issue 1762, 29 August 1885, Page 3 (Supplement)
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113ITALY IN THE SOUDAN. Otago Witness, Issue 1762, 29 August 1885, Page 3 (Supplement)
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