WAR IN EGYPT!

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1158, 22 August 1882, Page 2

WAR IN EGYPT!

I Alexandria, Aug. 20.1 : t The. sritish,.fleet. and,, transports, v ; a y-A \\ \\SSU y\! h'il •' which* 'left*'herv yesterdaypdidi not; stopat Abqukir, jji\t| passed on arid proceeded to Port Said. On arrival.! ' and- all Ith'ej natives in the place disarmed. No resistance,was offered, jf l ' ThisTUse having; been successfully accomplished, .it .is probable that the. fleet,; in'' l cbmpany' v wita ; the trsnsports, will to : day proceed to Aboukir, and forthwith commence the assault on tlife'f6rts;ther&. .All traffic through the Suez Canal has been''temporarily, , stopped by orderof Sir..Garnet;;Vols;;leypOt ■: ' ; . .. It is now ktaowtf-that the 1 , cannonade Whibh'-was heard yesterday in thei ~ direction/ofthe'Mohmudieh Canal was the: i outcome V'skirmish which ;oWrjed ,between; General Hamley's advanced guards and Arabi's. outposts ;. beyond,Ka'fa'dowaf. The action was :'nofc'of.a serious character, and easual.ties on either side were light. London, August 20. There are seventeen transports and five ' meh'cf-war at Port Said. 'All the Arab dhows have been disarmed, and daring ' the night the European quarter has been ■entrenched. 1 The telegraph line to Suez is secured, '< 'and Kantaraqnd Jsmalia have been ocou.' k 'pied. ''""" The enemy have been routed in a [■ skirmish at Ja „ , ri r ,i | The Serapis troopship ana the 'gunboats I have left Alexandria to reinforce the i AbonkirExpedition, ~,■.<. r , , : | The BlaokWaich'and'other reinforce- . ments have arrived at Alexandria.'. ' i: Alexandria, August 20., In a skirmish whioh took place near ' Port Said between some Egyptians and a ; body of Britiih sailors, .Commander H. [ 0. Kane, of H.M.S. Northumberland, ; who was in command of a landing party, I was sligh'tly wounded'., *:<../''-,, / ; , _. ' Port Said, Kantara, and IsrnahaJare 1 now occupied by detachments of sailors ! and marines fromHlieleeLi: , ! 1 The Egyptian position at Nefich was i taken tl ting the recent engagement, and -is now held'by a British force, j . i Canal is guarded by British' guj>b'ojife| msiw j$ present any [attack'upon the Canal or upon p'nsjing ships by the Arabs., .Tha.troopships which Arrived at last entered '• is believed with the: object of .landing |het.troopa at Ismailia, whence they will march upon Cairo! *'- ;!J f .- a r,, ; , ! ihe. slippage of traffio in the Canal, by the order of Sir .garnet Wolseley, was j adopted as a temporary precaution pend- ' 'ing ihVpassaga of the fleet past Aboukir forts without ail attack being made. ' X si! 'to wj ix»via & | ARABFTO>-8e surrounded' ■mmm - .1 t . , AIiBIANDBU, August 21, ~-j.lt; i s. now definitely known that it is •jntendea to despatch fprce via 'limaiH^./to '-Gftiro.* The' object of ~{he mdvebjen't ! ii f to take Arabi in the rear and ■ 'out off the' pro- 1 1 jected-attackiin fronUf Arabi's position. , The British troops'•'will proceed from Ismailia along the fresh water oana!, running from that place to Belbeo, and then march to the interior. The British fleet and'transports have as yet made no movement from Port Said, and it is not known" when the attack 611 Aboukir will take plaot. .