THE BURNING OF ALEXANANDRIA

Dunstan Times, Issue 1082, 19 January 1883, Page 4

THE BURNING OF ALEXANANDRIA

0 ord (J Lcrcsford, in responding fur “Tin' Kmy ” (it a civic dinner in /London recently, referred to the bombardment of Alexandria and the leatora'ion of order in that c t.y. The ]5 days during wlrch he was e“trirated with the civil government and >'he ru niagenfont of the l police were. 1 be paid, probably‘(he mo t eventful '/at evei “ny man hud to piss tineagh. The ’ bombardment look ji'nee on the 11 th* of July, and on the- ] 3th ihev landed GO marines and 70 « anifii There was no doubt if ihey had landed in the first instance we con'd have taken Arabi and defeated this army. Me believed, howiver, that the Government had promised that they would-rot land, and they were bound hy that promise. On the 13'h, when the small force which he lad mentioned landed, the conflagration nt awful, the p-ople were Iddti-ig and setting fire to the houses, in d in all (he out-of-the-way-places the Avals were murdering eaOh'otftefTor tel 11. The houses for falling, the sank ary condition ot the town was in a dreadful state, and there were many hundreds ot starving people, principally Jews and women and children, in the streets. Bi-sules the British force there were 120 Americans, .20 Greeks, and 40 Germans. The Americ-i-s worked splendid!;-, and he * could never thank them enough lbs '-Greeks worked veiy well; but ♦hey were rather too fond of the rifle, haring under tire impre.-siou that they ought- to sh-of every one who was opposed to them, and they were ac cordingly got df to the. ships. The noble lord highly < uiogised the conduct of the marines, who. he said, worked day and night, anti -displayed the greatest tact.