THE WAR IN EGYPT.
Received September 30, 2.45 p.m.
Alexandria, .Sept. 29, Evening
Further particulars which are to hand regarding the explo ion at Cairo show that ten days' rations and 100 trucks of munitions have been destroyed by the tire. The loss of life was not so great 'as at tirst stated. Five persons only were killed, but twenty suffered severe injury. The official accounts attribute th.3 explosion to the accidental bursting of a shell.
September 30,
A grand review of the British army took place at Cairo to- iay, and was an imposing spectacle. The Indian contingent are now under orders to return,,and will leave at once for India. The Guards do not leave Egypt untii Ocio'jer i>o.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 649, 3 October 1882, Page 2
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120THE WAR IN EGYPT. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 649, 3 October 1882, Page 2
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