BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
(Special to Press Association.) Brussels, March 13. A startling report has been received here to the effect that the Arabs overwhelmingly stormed and burned Suakin, and the Egyptian garrison lost heavily in the fearful slaughter ■which ensued. Many of the inhabitants took refuge on board the English warships in the bay, but the Governor of the town and Colonel Shakespeare were killed before escaping. News has al c o been received from Cairo of a partly confirmatory but of a less sensational character. Owing to the interruption of telegraph lines no details are to New York. March 12. Unequalled snowstorms were experienced in this city and the vicinity to-day. The city has been frozen into a state of inactivity. Street and railroad traffic has been stopped and the telegraph lines broken. Business is completely blocked, the people being afraid to venture out.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1895, 16 March 1888, Page 22
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