§ MR. ASHMEAD-BARTLETTasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether the telegraph between Khartoum and Cairo was considered to be in working order; and, if not, what was the date of the last telegraphic despatch received at the Foreign Office from General Gordon?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICEI have nothing to add to the statement which I made yesterday. What I understand to be the case is that the wire is not working between Shendy and Berber. The date of the last despatch from General Gordon is the 11th of March.