Note 245 — JOURNAL. (continued 2)

Sir E. Baring, in writing to General Gordon on the instructions of H. M. Government conveyed to him, says: “You will bear in mind the main end to be pursued is the evacuation of the Soudan.”—Enclosure, in Egypt No. 6. Sir E. Baring does not say, “the evacuation of Kartoum and the abandonment of all the other garrisons in the Soudan.”—Ed.