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Stanley A Hostage

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Day
21
Month
December
Year
1888
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Public Domain
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IjONüon, Deo. 15. - Englarul bas another Qordon case on her hands. A letter has been received ntSuakim from Osrnan Digma, he SoodaneKa leader, in wliich he states that be had captura] Emin Boyand "anothur white man" (presumahly Stanley) and that uniese Eng land abandona Suakim Lhe impression is convoyed that he will put tbeiu both to doatU. The lettur fiom Digma contained also copias of a dispatch frora a dervish leader at J jido to Kalia Pasha, ng the date of Eniiu Pasta's surronder as Oct 10, and a letter to Emin Pusba f rom the khedive, wh-ch the latter handel to Henry d. Stauly wben he was, at Cairo- so it is tated. The matter was brought up iu parliarnent. resterday, but Smith said he could not at bat time say that the letter was authentic. ïowever, refugnes from Handoub arriving at Suakitn coufirm Osman Dlgma's statements. Hls letter was m reply tu a request nado b.y Maj. Rundie last August for any nformation about Etuin Eey. The letter asserts that the mahdi has conquered all the quatorial provinoes. Dispacches from Suakim state that Gen. Grenfell has recognized the le'.ter iuelosed iu Osman Digma'.i as the original of the one which he drafted for the klifldive which the atter hauded to Stanley at Cairo. Thus Stanley's capture is virtually placed beyond a doubt. The authorities of the Congo Fres State have reoei ved no information regardiug he capiure as yet. The Iudepeudence Beige says: "England doubtless will do everything that is possible to be done to libérate che prisoners. Mr. Gladstone too bitterly regrets abandoning Uen. Gordon for Lord Salisbury to abandon ïmin Boy and Henry M. Stanley. It is beiieved tbat England will be torced o treat with the successf ui commander for the evacuation of Suakim, for the governnent will not dare to sacriflce the prisoners whom Osman Dik Sa threatens to kill unless ;he town is abandoned. Public opinión in ïïngland aheady revolt against the Soudan expedition, and this latest phase of the affair uten9iflas the feeling. There can be scarcely any doubt that the white traveler montioned as surrenderiug with Emin.Bey is Stanley,as everything thus far tends to conürra thii opinión. The balance of opinión among African experts bas, for some time past, accepted the theory that Stanley had been working towards Eniin, and if not actually with him was near him. Intense interest ia feit here in the f ate of the intrepid explorer, and no one for a moment believes that the government will allow bis life to be sacrificad in order to hold Suakim. Further developmenU in tho matter are awaitd with much anxlety.

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