THE WAR IN EGYPT.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2613, 22 August 1882, Page 3

THE WAR IN EGYPT.

BY CABLE. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] ALEXANDRIA, August 20. Port Said has now been occupied by the British force, and detachments of troops have been despatched to occupy Ismailia, and also Routara station on the Canal, twenty-five miles from Port Said. The Khedive’s Governor at the latter place has been reinstated in his position, and placed under British protection. Further particulars to hand regarding a skirmish which took place yesterday between General Hamley’s force and the enemy, show that the latter offered but slight resistance. During the engagement the enemy’s guns at Nefieh for a time shelled the British positions. All is, however, now quiet in the neighbourhood. In the skirmish which took place near Port Said between some Egyptians and a body of British sailors, Commander H. C. Kane, of H.M.S. Northumberland, who was in command of the landing party, was slightly wounded. Port Said, Kaaatara and Ismailia, are now occupied by detachments of sailors and marines from the fleet. The Egyptian position at Nefich was taken during a recant engagement, and is now held by the British force.

The Suez Canal is guarded by the British gunboats in order to prevent any attack upon the Canal or upon passing ships by the Arabs. The troop-ships which arrived at Port Said last night have now entered the Canal, it is believed with the object of landing troops at Ismailia, whence they will march upon Cairo.

The stoppage of traffic in the Canal by order of Sic Garnet Wolaeley was adopted as a temporary precaution, pending tbo passage of the fleet past Abonkir forts without the attack being made.

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LONDON, August 20, 5.36 a.m

Thero are now seventeen transports and five men of war at Port Said. All Arab dhows have been disarmed, and during the night the open quarter has been entrenched. The telegraph line to Suez has been secured, and Kautara and Ismailia have been occupied. The enemy have been routed in a skirmish at Kafach. The Serapis troopship and the gunboats have left Alexandria to reinforce the Aboukir expedition. The Black Watch and other reinforcements have arrived at Alexandria.