Note 220 — JOURNAL.
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This refers to a telegram sent by Colonel Coetlogon to Colonel Fraser Floyer, at Wady Halfa, at the above date, which runs: “No fresh news. Anxiously awaiting reinforcements.” Underneath this General Gordon has written: “If Coetlogon had only been then informed that there was no intention to send reinforcements (further than nine persons) for (nearly) a year!”—Ed.