EGYPTIAN QUESTION.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 11, 22 July 1882, Page 3

EGYPTIAN QUESTION.

: 6000 BKITISK TROOPS FOIL ALEXANDRIA. 1 1 ' —^. „:,■.; i 3 OEDEE Ix\ THE CITY KESTO ED. I THE (iEEAT POWERS AND THE SULTAN. EUROPEANS MUEDEEED BY NATIVES. 3 '• ■■ " v ' f, \'ft - s- ' • ' [by^telegbaph} Alkxandbia, July 19. The arrival of trans ports from England and Malta has increased the number of English troops here to 6000. That force is now ashore, and has been placed under the command of Mr Archibald Alison. The city is now quite calm, and fires have entirely ceased. Confidence is being rapidly restored, and the public offices of GovernmeHt are being reopened. Information is to hand that Arabi is still at Kafradowar, with a portion of the Egyptian! army/ who ate engaged informing an entrenched position. Several disturbances have occurred at Tantah, a large town at the junction of the railway from Kairo to Alexandria and Dannetta Branch The natives attacked the European quarter in force, and several of the latter have been killed. : ... A crusade hai been proclaimed by Arabi Pasha. It is reported that 80 uropeans have been massacred at Tankar. ■ Constantinople, July 19. There are now hopeful < signs that the Sultan is disposed to accept the identical note of the Great Powers, and to agree to the request made therein that a force of Turkish, troops .should occupy Egypt.