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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 9, 15 July 1882, Page 3

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EGYPTIANS LEAVE ALEXANDivlA. THE CITY IN FLAMES. | HORRIBLE ATROCITIES. At.exandbia, July 13. A. landing party swam ashore from tbe slaps yesterday and blew up the guns in the silenced forts. The Egyptians offered no resistance. It has been ascertained that when the flag of truce was hoisted yesterday, a boat went off to the English flagship. The. Egyptian envoy requested that negotiations for the sc'tletnent of hostilities might be entered upon. Admiral Seymour, iu^eply, slated that lie could not agree lo the request, unless the forts

I commanding the harbor were fird surrenI dere.l. This demand w-.s refused by .bo ! Egyptians, and tLe temporary true- was j therefore ended. I The bombardment of Ihe harbor fori s was to have been resumed to-day, but the weather has prevented the firing. I As soon as it moderates the cannonade will commence. It is now known that the flag of truce was hoisted by the Egyptians merely to enable the troops to withdraw in safety, from the forts and entrenched positions. The whole of tbe. army which was in flic city lias retreated into the interior, and the fortifications have been entirely abandoned. I The cify has been set on fire in several places by a body of released convicts, j ! nnd the -..hole town is now in flames.! I Tae po; v ;'.i c has 1 c*n violemly enrrged, : i and has mane an attack upon the. Euro- ; ' p-ans who Were remaining in the city, j | The European quarter has been I i demolished.' and fully one bund rerl j 1-uropcans have been massacred. Most ' "'orrible atrocities have been committed ■ ' by the attackers.' Many Europeans sue- ' ceeded in iigh ing tbeir way through the ' nmb to the beach, where fhev were rescued by boats from the Eu.dbh ships. ' and conveyed on board. The Khedive has disappeared, and his whereabouts is again unknown. | Meu-0.--.nf, Ji-ly 14. | No further intelligence has been re- ■ ceived from Egypt. The cable is work- j ing irregularly.