Dynamitards in Spam.
! [Reuter's Telegrams.] LONDON, June 6. The House of Commons re-as-sembled yesterday, after the Whitsuntide holidays. Telegrams from Souakim, where the garrison has been re-inforced by a body of British marines, state that Osman Digna, with a following of 7000 Arab rebels, is now in the neighbourhood, and threatens to make an attack upon the town. CAIRO, June 5. Reports have reached here to the effect that General Gordon has left Khartoum and escaped southward up the river Nile on board a steamer. MADRID, June 5. A serious dynamite explosion occurred at Barcelona, where attempts were made to commit similar outrages last month. The explosion was ! caused by a dynamite cartridge which had been placed, in the street. One person was killed, and the buildings on the spot were greatly injured.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5022, 7 June 1884, Page 3
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