WAR IN EGYPT!

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1131, 21 July 1882, Page 2

WAR IN EGYPT!

RENTER'S TELEGRAMS. London July 19. The English occupation of the Suez Canal is to be for three.month?. Alexandria is now quieting. Arabi Pasha commands the water supply , for the.city, and threatens to cut it off.. The Governor at Cairo has suppressed ; attempts which were made at looting. Ten thousand Arabs aro assenbletl in the vicinity of the Canal. Tho Arabs' ait Oran are suddenlyarming arid assuming a threatning demeanour. ' Dervish Pasha has returned from Alexandria. '■ ' - . o;ie hundred houses are still burning there. . ■ The inhabitants at Symrna and Alexandria are very indignant at the nonlanding of troops earlier, Suez is now almost deserted, It lSSaid that only twenty Europeans remain at Cairo, ■ General Grant lias written'expressing sympathy with England- in the present crisis, ' ' * LATER. THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY ' FORCE, ARABI PASHA . COLLECTING : THE SINEWS OP WAR. London, July 20. Tim Times this morning publishes a paragraph stating, that in consequence of the hesitation of the Porte in replying;to the request .of_the Great Powers for the despatch of Turkish troops'to Egypt, the English Government have to-day issued orders for the ' British expeditionary force which has recently been organised to proceed without delay to Alexandria. /-; Alexandria, July 20, - , Intelligence is to .hand from, Kafradowaj' that Arabi Paslia ,1s collecting' and receiving the taxes-from the inhabitants of the district, and is further making extensive requisitions upon them for money and supplies.