THE CRISIS IN EGYPT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 304, 26 November 1883, Page 2

THE CRISIS IN EGYPT.

:: fi- further Particulars. ■, AiLEnglish Correspondent and a Ger*'i i matiArtist fonlv Persons Saved. \ i_> ifiO^Wounde.^ r Survi»ors. . . LT'Egyßtlsir (ftrmninentrHtacGAmd*-* '■ a > r uftr- " ~i : TBI,ES?UPH. — OOPTBIOHT.) i (reuteb's telegrams.) i; 1>• V A r <feovßpr^ November 23. I ~- T . The news of the complete annihila-j tionrpf tlie troops- under General #ick» rPasharis^now confirmed. The number j>f ' Egyptian 1s estimai e<l at ten thousand, while those uuder the False! fPropbM Mac! hi are stated to be three hundred thousand. MadUi Bent .fojr-l "K'ftfcKto'the enemy dervishes declaring 1 ■ that hec would vanquish them by 'divine M aid. rThe^mall iorce qtf, Egyptiapsfotfght'hard for three das% when, their! ' sq^iaro was "broken, and, . the s whple. <p^ '- them, , with; the exception of a; German artist and O' Donovan, a cor^esponiienti w'rt'e ■' annihilated. Eleven";^^ngiish ' OffieVr% were among those killedfi. Tjbe Biiii^i suggest that the Soudan, aliould , ( 'lje abawfoSed as far as the WhitpT Njlo ' 'or White River. •■•-..■; L , ■:!...'.'.'.'. ' '•' A captain of the Egyptian forces^ an the disguise of a dervish,; has .arrived at Khkrtoiin, and reports that on o the Battlefield ; he saw 1 50 ppi'/vivdrs dP'Hicks Passha's ai;my A inflating I 'an' artist tfamed Power. The.Egygt)an ' 'Government is quite paralysed ,. at' the result of- the conflict, and is consjaftpg ■with/Sir Evelyn "Wood, who is •m^com)jihand'of4fie British- koo'p^s ;in. JJgjfpt, :; as to the bast means g£quel^ng i^9; ie - ■