Show TELEGRAPHIC TICKS ors Egypt London Parliamentary documents docu-ments just published include a dispatch dis-patch to the British minister in Egypt from Gen Gordao dated Khartoum April 16 in which he says So far as I understand the situation you state there is an in ten lion of sending relief here or to Berber you refuse me Zebt = hr Pasha I consider myself free to act according to cffcnmstances I shall hold on here as long aa I can It I can suppress the rebellion I shall do so otherwise I shall retire to the equator and leave yon the indelible disgrace of abandoning the garrisons of Senaar Kacsala Berber and Don gola with the certainty that you will eventually bs forced to smash up the Mahdi i under great difficulties if you woald retain peace in Egypt The documents include a telegram from Col Stewart to Sir Evelyn Baring in which he says Gen Gordon has acquainted me with your intention not to relieve Khartoum Khar-toum It is proposed that I shall go to Berber trusting to the success of your negotiations for opening the Suakim and Berber routes doubtirg however success as far as the Berber road is concerned unless it is opened by advancing troops I am inclined to think my retreat Bare by way of the equator and shall therefore fnl low Gen Gordons fortunes Vice Consul Power also telegraphed tee I minister lehall follow Gen Gordon 1 to the equator It is a lees risky road but should the Arabs possibly reach Berber they woud entirely blockade the wey on the north east and west Vienna 5A Catholic missionary from Souoan writes ta the Politsche Correspondence that every one in that region ia impressed with the conviction that Khartoum and Berber Ber-ber are lot and unless the British shall post a etrons fnce to hold Assouan all Egypt will < venually succumb to the Mahdi Cairo 5An Arab journal affirms that El Mahdi demands 500000 ran om for den Gordon tbe sum tore to-re paid to the Mabdi within three months London 6The Pall Mall Gazette Ga-zette in an article under the headlines head-lines Disgrace and something more says government after having hav-ing compelled General Gordon to i commit his Kbartoum friends to i support him now suggests as a climax of meanness that he shall abanaon his friends 0 |