RELIEF OF EMIN BEY.
ANOTHER EXPEDITION TO START IN A MONTH. J London, Nov 13. Mr J. Thompson, the explorer of Masai Land, between Lake Victoria Nyanza and the east coast of Africa, has undertaken to load an expedition for the relief of Emin Bey. He proposes to start in a month. Mr Thomson expresses the belief that Mr Stanley is dead. MAJOR BABTTELOT’S BEATS. Several communications from a correspondent on the Congo throw some curious light On the assassination of Major Barttelo’. One correspondent’s letter, dated July 28, and written long before the news of Major Barttelot’s death was known, stated that stories had reached the Congo of grave dissatisfaction among Major Barttelot’s followers, and of some soreness on the part of Tippoo Tib. “ The result is,” said the correspondent, by way of summing up the current rumors ana opinions on the Congo, '* that the major is hated by his men, and there are dark hints that he is certain either to be shot or poisoned by them.” What a lurid light the existence - I these “ dark bints” throw? oa the actual accomplishment of the predicted purpose 1 An official of the Congo State wrote Great complaints are made against Barttelot in many ways. Housed no means to save his men from starvation, which, it is alleged, he could and ought to have done. His rough treatment of the men, in spite of their sufferings, is considered by Troup and others to be the worst policy he could have pursued, more than one threat having been uttered by the sbldiers that when they got their commander on the march, they would shimUrtin. One poor fellow, said to be a desc major ordered to be shot, but afteTwsrdz changed the order to 300 lashes, under which he succumbed after a few days’ dreadful agony. And yet the man’s story, like enough to be true, was that he was only in a neighboring town trying to buy food to keep body and soul together, That the major is thoroughly hated by his men ie undeniable ; nor will his officers say a good word for him. Daring the two months of their camp, one of them had not exchanged one word with the major,
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 222, 15 November 1888, Page 2
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372RELIEF OF EMIN BEY. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 222, 15 November 1888, Page 2
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