Note 109 — JOURNAL.
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“European Consuls came to me to-day with the question whether Kartoum was menaced. I replied that it was not so, directly, but that the road to Berber was threatened. They asked me if I could help them to go to Berber. I replied ‘Yes.’ There is no doubt that when these Europeans leave, it will be a most significant sign to the people in this town and in the provinces that no assistance is likely to come to Kartoum. Under these circumstances, what do you recommend me to say in order to neutralise the ill-effects of their departure?—General Gordon to Sir Evelyn Baring, Kartoum, March 9, 1884, 11.30 p.m. Egypt, No. 12 (1884), Inclosure in No. 242.