HOW WE CAPTURED TEL-EL-KEBIR.
A. writer in'' Vanity Fair" aaya: -"A strange pieco of information lias readier, mo from a most authoiitatiro Mid uu doubted soni'co in E«ypt. It is tliis: Tlmt tho Sultan Pasha who, as is wellknown, occupiod a l»i»U position in tliu Egyptian Army, was all through in comuiuiucalion with Sir Gurnet Wolseley ; lliat he received tlio sum of £IO,OOO from ihe Khedive, and- that in consideration ol this 1)6, ml the liiuht before the action of Telel-Kcbir, and after Arabi had retired to rest, Rave ordora that the wholo of the outlying pickets of ihe Egypiim Army ahould he called in; thai they were I accordingly called in, and ihist thus every-' ! iliing was made easy fur tli'e surprise | which was effected a few lioura after by the English troops.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1326, 13 March 1883, Page 3
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134HOW WE CAPTURED TEL-ELKEBIR. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1326, 13 March 1883, Page 3
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