The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-09-26 00:00:00

TUE SURRENDER OF KIFR DOWAR

ALLNANDRIA, S an h rur whico Sir EVeiyll
Wo ma's chera aids-de-swap calls morning, but other
po cali the dead of hunt, I wcsa.ain peraii . t sec m-
ammy bon to the lines of our amiable enemy, Nuttont
could exasod toe cordiality with wineo we were welcomed.
hot uno looked in vain fur any consciousness of defeat.
Todleben after Sebeetopol. Gamin atter Ir.vers, could not
have shown more mid, in tour fortiticat.un I. 'there they
were, solid =sooty under the gun.. inaCmeable Guth-
work& the labour of their own hands, all done in a few
weak.; "and," said the Canonandaut, with the pride of
a man of many accomplishments, "we can destroy them
even still more quickly. That Arabi wee a prisoner they
h-,rd with unbounded satidaction ; that they, the flower
of the army, some 15,00 J men, must surrender to 1.000
Englishmen because their raw recruits had run away, was
lit MI it •hould be; but t at with all their firing they
killed hone of no, that was the oat of all. The collapse of
tee Arebi bubble exceed& indeed, even the wildest dreams
of those who have contasted the theory of Mr. Wilt, id
Blunt and Sir William Gregory.-oundee.—l omitted
yestorday to repeat one striking remark of Omar Bey, one
u: the surrendering officers. I asksj what induced Arad
to leave his best soldiers bete and to face our ir opi with
raw rscruits. lie replica. "We were very badly serval
by our eves, sod toe c mtinuel skirmishes and feigned
attache which you made from this side deceiveu us.
We thought that the Ismailia move was • ruse, or at heat
only to secure the Canal. and that the real atuick wool
be from here." The natives seem in no way impressed
with any sense of defeat. Many Cr, already firm
believers in a little fiction, according to which the Suit..
has ordered the Queen sail Arabi both to lay down their
Wm., and that he IS trendiest troops to put PI straight.
Tha idea that Arabi will be punished is considered
ridiculous, and even at tee last execution • Eurepmen was
toil, "You dare nut do treat to A esbi Pasha." An Eglp
tian tallith cannot reams justice which is equal Woke to
hi n and to • pasha, and It is one of the glories nf Mehmet
Alt in their eyes that he even punireed Boys. 111. known
that the sultan has been quite rel :itly in conimuoicatioe
with lambi, through Damietta, eve. sines the prudent.
lion: and Viere can be no doubt Gut thu out spork of
resistance oriainste• from Stamboul. A leading Turk
said ti me recintly, "Tecre will be no peace in the East
air ing am Abdul Harold Is Soften." The Council of
Ministers have prop owil and the Khedive haa sigoed the
following laconic decree :—We, Knedlve of Egypt, con-
, atherthe the rebellsoa of the Eityption army, decree:—
'Article I. The Bastian army I. d'seolved. lade 11.
The olficsn of all ranks guilty of the crime of rebellion
will he prosecuted and punished accuri'm I, nottsry
law.'" Rim Pe.ha has stated that, as order will be
impossible unless capit ii punisturicet were awarded to the
leaders of the revolt he should ahandon the country if any
milder sentence were pa eat. General Wood received to-
day the cabmi-sion of about 1,000 men from Aboukir and
4,1.11.1 from Maks. The total surrender here crud,. of
about 6,0110 men, I bones. and 1.5,01,0 Remington& 50
fields 1,1165, mostly eight-centimetre Krupp& with all
harness, ssililley, and general equipment. This Is, of
course, exilusive of any amen lee to Sir Garnet Wolseley.
The men were allowed to disband, the officers were
brought In unti,e sec irt and lodged in Rioniih Palace.
The disbanded soldiers seis.d the train at Dananhour by
force and dielliVe wed th-ir vinare..

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SURILF-Innit Or THE itiOenla FORCE.
ALEXVinkle, Sduday.—Tbe oduplate su,rendar 01
Anoulcr and the coining in a the gartioun t, Kafr Dmar
t lay dor. them arms to dt piece this aft-Moon The
W... W.. 'eiy airia.a, witb the crowd of wild•looking
men, includiag many regulars, who brought in their arms
and threw them down at the feet of Sir Evelyn Woo I.
More than one hundred Eryptian °dicers came in from
Abouktr. Many of the men carried tour gull fire rifles,
became they brolght them. of their comrade. who bad
fled. The arms were in Yen` [hod order. sod the horinnill
excellent condition.

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