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Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1776, 22 November 1883, Page 2

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London', November 19.^^ In the course of a despatch to the Imperial Societal y of State for Foreign Affairs, Major Sir Evelyn Baring, the British Diplomatic Agent and Consul-General in Egypt, states that a force of three thousand lutautiy, uith m\ guns, will be sufficient as a garrison for Alexandria, and tllfP Egyptian (iovcrmncnt h.ivo intimated their icadinoss to be an.sweiable for the maintenauce nf older in the country at large, the • oiganis-ition of a native army having now boon completed by Sir Evelyn Wood, Com- - maudei -m-Chief.

(4kxoa, November If). His Tmpei ial Highness the Crown Prince of (ieimauy ai rived here to-day fiiwn Berlin. He proceeds to-niglit to V aleucia., en loute tor Madiid, escoited by the Geinian Mediteii.iiie.ui naval .squadron. Ai.n\AM)Ki v, November 15K The report to hand last week that a detachment of Egyptian troops had been attacked .Mid united neai Souikim, a port m the Red Sea, is now fully confirmed. The tioops numbeied '100, and weie proceeding to minfoicu the army in the Soudan, when they were attacked by tho rebel lullman. Mi Moncriett, the British Consul at Soudkini. who was with the detachment, w.ts killed. Only fourteen men escaped, and they ni.idi* their way to Souakim, which was subsequently attacked by the rebels, who weie, however, icpulaed by the Egyptian garrison. The latest reports htato that another attack on Souakim < is imminent, and that the population is fleeing from the place, feaung that it will fall into the hands of the rebels. ,