The Senoussi

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 121, 28 March 1885, Page 3

The Senoussi

■ HATfiRS OF CHRISTIANITY. A correspondent writes to the London "Telegraph" that there exists in Egypt *nd Mohammedan countries a secret seciety called the " Seaousst,", which is greater in its influence and numbers than oyer was the' Society of Jesus in .'rts palmiest days. It had a hand, he says, in Arabi's rebellion, counts the Mahdi of the Soudan as one of its officers, and waist the bottom of the two mevemeats, having, instigated both of them. The Grand Master of the Senousai beasts that lie has more -or less at his command abrfut aO.ikW.doObf Motiammedans— that IS, aV*r r a third- of the total numibw of the *ajtb|ul. The greater number of those b^fcg, mqi*£ dr less J subject to Christian p^We-f^.', dream ' of ; nothing but of the universal ejrnpire promised by the Koran. The, feeling of intense hatred against the * Ch-jiftianyif,; deeply r engrafted in their 'hearts, and ;Whtther . latent or eruptive, the work Which goes on is permanent. They are at' any moment prepared to seize the opportunity ' i Of a struggle with j civilised nations ; their sole aim is a holy war, j-nth, neither trjice, nor mercy, against all Ijioio VJo cc[venanl with the infidel. 'their headquarters are at Serfiboub, o^, , the ., Egyp>.o;Tfi^i t ', n - border, It ofspyeut. " Evea tsg year? 'ago i& MA sixteen , big guns pur«hfl?ed %$a Alexandria, , aad several l*rgft:fa*lorjesi;i where gunpowder wss pireduSed, sold small arms, obtained in Ej&pt> •WtabUiltedViid' repaired. In F^bttlaryfiifcs^tfle fciimber of big guns b'hd ihto^ssidl'td 1 dyer _ hundred, atid thi>re'^ere' :i besid , J4' ' tireify mitrailleuses' 1 of German " ilns_uf»ct ! ure. "' .According to tWsiWortiiy information, two Italian and tjiree Austria^, .vessels anchored .daring the n?ontHs of June and July last, in the, -p^^p^'Tibrauk^wlM.oh; belpngs to the Qfder— ladea with arms,. shot and shell, which were immediately forwarded orvr tkeSOaktlo-neter* separating thepeftf rom Serhboab, • There are also at the latter place a splehdln library, ■ transported thitlier frdtn Mecca, -the former headqeisHsriof ihe fraternity, stables ontainiijM' ever 4XXX) horses, magnificent reservoir* and plantations, 'etc. Accord inn; to'the distirigsished. French author DuvVyrier, the bodyguard of the master who resides there consists, of over .3,000 Aieriaas." ."..... ... ■:.,;.. ■. * _________________