ALEXANDRIA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3495, 19 September 1882, Page 3

ALEXANDRIA.

September 16. The whole of the British army is now going to Cairo. Sir Evelyn Wood, at the head of a detachment of troops, is now engaged in disarming the garrison at Kafradowar. All the principle colleagues of Arabi have been arrested. Abdellad, Arabi's commander at Dannetta, who holds the town with a force of fully 5000 black troops, has refused to surrender to the Britieh forces.

September 17. The garrison at Fort Ashlan, near Kafradowar, haa submitted, and the troops at Aboubir ?re also surrendering to the British forces. September 18. Sir Evelyn Wood, on his arrival at Kafradowar, found that the rebel army which had been stationed there had dispersed without waiting to surrender. The place is now occupied by the British force. Railway communication between Alexandria and Cairo has now been restored. In all twenty leaders of the National party have been arrested for complicity in the revolt. A decree has been issued by the Khedive wholly disbanding the Egyptian army. The decree further sets forth that all the officers of the army who showed sympathy with the Nationalist movement will be tried by court-martial at Cairo.