EGYPT.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4256, 22 August 1882, Page 2

EGYPT.

Alexandbia, August 20. Port Said has now been occupied by the British forces, and a detachment of troops has been despatched to occupy Ismailia and also Kantara Station, on the Canal, 25 miles from Port Said. The Khedive's Governor at the latter place has been reinstated and placed under British protection. The Outpost Skirmish. Further particulars to hand regarding the 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 Nifish shelled the British positions for a time. All is, however, now quiet in the neighborhood. 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, Kautara, and Imailia are now occupied by detachments of sailors and marines from the fleet. The Egyptian position at Nefich was taken during the recent engagement, and is now held by a British force.

The Suez Canal is guarded by British gunboats in order to prerent any attack upon the Canal or upon passing ships by the Arab?.

The troopships which arrived at Port Said last night bare entered the Canal, it is believed with the object of landing troops at Ismailia, whence they will march upon Cairo. The stoppage of the traffic in the Canal by order of Sir Garnet Wolseley was adopted as a temporary precaution pending the passage of the fleet past Abourkir, without an attack being made.