WAR IN EGYPT!

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1163, 28 August 1882, Page 2

WAR IN EGYPT!

(REUTERVtaQBAMfI.) LOMDOX, AUgU.lt 25- -> > ' 7""Pamleb7(flicriißß bTen/mpied" by ou* '• 1 tfoobpa after a srisrp engagement with the , Bedouiw.ahojrew P»itei^i.tJUiißP»iderable loss. ,~, , T . -. ,« .. The 1 caeiiiltiea'ainoDg IheßritAli foroei ip the .recent engagements were nine .jprrtatjßslkilled and thirty wounded. The ~ enemy lost four hundred. The Duke of Connaught ably handled the Guards, Eighty railway carriage!, laden with r. ■ '•• ■ } wmwmywmwM}.wmMwr ■ A boat service on the Canal fI^MP 4he|adva;lce'pf%British'ioTce. "' v )jMy l priVatei'ortneLiy have, been ' )'afflicted with sunstroke. m The Egyptian coast is blockaded. -^ 11/.Deserters rejibVfc'ithatArabi has a force of 20,000 men at Kafr-dawar, receivelfrom Sir. Garnet Wofsefey "tating that'he haa cap--IPM Dameamel and JNagfar, after a ' series of briliant Bkirmißhes. The enemy ;i ,9PPpaJog/thfm only amounted to 1500 i) ahiilifantry, i Sir Game; Wolseley will attack Holanke i.ta-day. i Alexandria, August 26. ~, Sir.jnGMn.et;) Wflhiejy,, : sqpported by •: atrong teinforcementa froni [ißmailia, attacked and routed the enemy at Ramses, ' ■where they were in great force and t strongly posted, capturing their camp, & |unafand i large quantity of 1 'material] >The luSßes on the British aide r are slight, The force under Sir Garnet , Wolteley will ■;.■■■ :-..!M ' w <m y \ . • t , theoperations , of the British troops in Eastern Egypt t. ,arftnpw,to r hai)i [ . / Sir i . i Cb}rpt Wolseley, , with the'advauco,;BUftrd, i fldvanc^d i from ) Nefioh on Thursday, and came''up with . - the enemy in a strong position at Dom, 1 rfter Beveral skirmishes along the route. j a" Irillijnt assault, ! but owing 'to't'he'strength'of tbe enemy f 'the British,were unable to advance, and l hel ; d their ground all day .waiting for 3 assistance. On 1 ments an advance x was made upon Ram* [, |'es, the ,' %nmny at that plabe 1 . v* !- £ t CONSIAHIISOEWI^AugUstJS. - r-Xty Porte, declares that Syria iajran. t qnu,and.tjia{ r n6 (-'-tWiolte fea&diV I p }J ; _1 i: fi Alexandru, Augus r Intelligahce is to hand th&ti aHarge e- force of the enemy is still at btlafrc, ,dawar, work of.entrenching '*■ 'is being further- yigorouslyl proceede4 JljfrfaiMi .; News lias also been received from j Port, Said thaUhe Arabs at Ghsmileh ] ; and, it ia -. expected that tliey intend to ma^ke^ 8 attack on the port, ! A" \ of - _ ,ArabfS[a|my iave,. deserted, ;and the " renemy's'rank?,are daily becoming,, '""' ~-', r- ■ Angust'^7. arlfimotfSir Garnet ■i camp at Ramses,* 1 and '_ .nothing has been seen of the enemy i; since |he reoent engagement, i j .The' British cavalry on Saturday Sweetwater Canal, uetween Cairo! and "- Ismaila. ■-•- - — ; \ s -■■ London,.August,26. e rilnlelljgiencß js to hand from the 1 Islands that a terrible ouc'i break of cholera is raging there. Four " fh'juspd'd&ths are already reported '' Ifom the epitlimio. v i lrr=—r—:, . -. a —s^