THE WAR IN EGYPT.
fBKUTER'S TELEGBAMS.J ALEXANDRIA, August 31.
The residents in the suburbs of this city are returning in considerable numbers, and confidence is being rapidly restored.
Sir Garnet Wolseley has returned from the front, and is now at Ismailia. No farther movement of importance has occurred.
To-night the statement is current in Ismailia that the Governor of Zagazig, an important town at the junction of the railway lines between Alexandria and Suez and Cairo, has commenced parleying with the British on behalf of Arahi, with the view to obtain an armistice and terms for the subsequent surrender of the rebel army.
September 1. The rumor which has bean circulated here regarding the parleying for an armistice is distrusted.
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LONDON, August 31, 5.57.
Arabi has requested an armistice of eight days. This, however, has not met with the approval of Sir Garnet "Wolseley, who has offered one day. The Assembly of Notables despair as to the result of further resistance.
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LONDON, August 31, 5.26 p.m. The British outposts have been strongly reinforced, and Sir Garnet Wolseley shows the utmost vigilance in his arrangements. Three hundred of the English force are in the hospital. The killed of the enemy in the recent engagement at Kaaaaain, numbering several hundred, have been buried by our troops. The suburban population is flocking into Alexandria, as neither life nor property are now considered safe ontside the limits of the British troops. Predatory hordes are ravaging the country and committing all kinds of outrages. Piovisiona are plentiful in the city. The enemy are retiring to Damanhour, and have opened their advanced trenches.
CONSTANTINOPLE, August 31
A difficulty has arisen with regard to the despatch of Turkish troops to Egypt, in accordance with the terms of the Anglo-Turkish Military Convention. The execution of the Convention is delayed. It has not been decided at what point the landing shall take place.
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2623, 2 September 1882, Page 3
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