The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1883. THE SOUDAN CAMPAIGN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 306, 28 November 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1883. THE SOUDAN CAMPAIGN.

By- latest intelligence it will be seenu that the position of affairs at Soudan is exceedingly-alarming. It ' seems probable that El MX&di. Ib whom is attributed certain supernatural powers,has imbued his' followers wilh?tne c be> lief that he wDI lead them on to certafn victor^ and that a.H he is inspired by Divine, authority, defeat is- impossible. We might fiofr inaptly compare the influence he will exercise over his fol- . lowers to that with which Te Wbiti imbued Natives^ whom :th,eit : prOpliet-cWef was regarded as infallible and invincible; 1 and nbxt to tn'o Pe'ity.j' El MAkot had previously taken to?pr,ophesyihg,andby this andother nieanshad attained* such Supremacy ', over the rebel lfiili^bitrtuts of Soudan* as to .be able. to cause a; general insur* rection, into which he could easily infuse the fervid . reckless „ ardour characteristic- of siniilar|ifainktipal outbreaks. They would compass their foe with the certain belief that they would be given into their power 'ait last,' When annihilation would be a sacred duty that devolved upon them. It is greatly to be feaVed: that before assistance can reach the panic stricken inhabitants of Khar-toxin, the other inlanM towns . iv th,e vicinity, El MAHpi'svast horde of fanatics will have perpetrated dreadful barbarities, and will have laid waste the wholecountry with fir,e,sword,, and brutal butchery of helpless beings. A> fanatical band knows no feeling of compunction, and gives no quarter to a beaten foe, but revels' in bloodshed, rapine, : ;aud nameless horrors. The boginning of the •end^'seems yet very ,< distant. Tl^e .revolting ba^ba^tjes that have caused Tippoo Saib to be remembered with feelings 5 of ! detestatipn and abhorrence, raay yet be surpassed intheir refinement, of brutality by the fierce blood-tKirsty mob which El Mahdi has mustered round Bis banner.