The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-09-19 00:00:00

Capture of Tel-el-Kebir.

TEIE POSIfIuN T RMED IN TWENTY
MINUTES.

GREAT CARNAGE AMONG THE ENEMY.

3,000 PRISONERS TAKEN,

CAPTURE OF FoRTY GUNS AND
IMMENSE STORES.
[FROM CENTRAL NEWS.)

STORMING OF TELEL-KEBIR.
Till " lITANDAW ACCuLST.

By early dawn the troops lull arrived within a
thionencl yards of the enemy'. line., and h..1"1
there for a short time to ehahle the figotinline
to be formed, and other preparations to be mule.
A perfeiA silen • atoll reigned over the plain, and it
was difficult to credit the fact that tome fimeieen
thouimoil men lay in a semcirele r.,und the enemy'.
ilie., re i.ly forward • t signal at the low
.and beeps In front, behind which te ge at many sr en
slumbered, unauspici o' their presecce.
I he attack began on our In t, and nothing could be
imagined finer than the advance of the Highland
Br. 'see. Swiftly an I o,lently the Highlande.'.m ved
I .rwivci to the attack. No word wan spoken, no shot
6. I until within three hundred yarie of the enitny'e
e‘rthwn it. nor up to th .t tone did a mind in the
Egyp 'an does bstoke that they were awe-e of the
p.e.ience of their assailants.
Then sullenly • terrific fire (lathed along the
line of sand heaps, lied a 4 irm of bullets whizzed
over the bra hot the advancing tr iopc
A wild cheer brike from the Highlanders in reponse,
the pip,* etrnek shrilly u• ~ bay e•s were lite I, an!
at the double, the aplen.lid b idy oi men dashed fir-
wad. .

The Brat line of entrenchments wet Carrie!, the
eee.e, r,fferin.leearce any resi.tanos, but from
an ther line of encrenchmenti behirid, which in the
etai dim light cool.] be scarcely sten, • burrito.'
mu.ketry broke out.
For a few minutes the Highlander., poured in a
heavy fire in exchange; but it wee probably ee
Innocu rue ae th at of the unseen enemy, whose bullet,
whietle i harmlessly overhead. The delay in the
a 'canoe we, but a short one. So in the order wee
given, and the Brigad again went rapi Ily forwarf.
s.mn a portion of the force had pamed between the
enemy'. re.loub's an I opened& fl inking tire up in him.
Chi. wee much for tip. F.gyptiatte wh onee
t I. their heels and fairly ran, sulfering, am the
crowd.,l m.A.es rushed acres the open. very heavily
from iior fire, being literally mown down by
hundre 1...

M -.awhile, the fightinr had begun upon the other
flank. The ilorm Artillery shelled the enemy's
extreme left. H. re the Egyptian. seemed more pre-
pared than they bet be-n on their right, and for • time
kept up • eta ady tire. The 18th Royal lri,h were sent
to turn the enemy s left under the gui lsme of Niel .r
Hart, who a.-compahied them 4,1 at if officer. end, at
the word, dashed at the treoches, and carried them at
the liayonste puint,6o turnin4 the dank of the defenders
of the p
Net to the 18th came the 87th, and next to thtm
the 84th, the liner ni bring close up behind in support.
These rciment, advance I by regular rushes. For a
short time the enemy clung to his line of entrench-
ments ; hut his tiro was singularly ineff-ctive, and
our troop. got fairly into the trenches in front id
th.m. Then toe en-my four.lit stoudy for •
few tooment-_, sea the c .mbst was hen-1 to idand.
tlaj Hart eh t ,n, Mal es he Was trying to ',greet
hi, revolver from his hand. mad this even -f ter the
tr-rich has been turned by isr advance on their
If •nk. Then, es our tr tops pour--d in, the rgyptains
H a. rapt ily as those op.n the other side of the
lanai had done before the H ghland-re.
Th., 84ht w. ..ow prsct cady over, the only
further d alter arising from bulbos of our own troops.
1 who were If in, in elldir, along upoo the flyingenemy,
11.4 With loud cheers our whole line advanced in
purault.
The Kgyptians did not preserve the slightest sembl-
ance of older, but Hellos confused rabble at the top
of their speed.

At the station were two trains, which were filled
with fugitives, and these managed to get away before
our troupe came up. Anoth,r engine, however, on
the point of starting wee blown up by one of our
shells.
The victorious line of troops advanced cheering
escrow the seem •'. cams,, and halted at the stati,n,
where Sir G•rnet Wokeley soon after arrived.
As I write, the troopis are cheerln4 their B. igadiers,
Ali.on and Graham, who rude into the trenches at
their

The Highlanders and Guards ars making themselves
oomfortabls 10 the abandoned Itigyptian tent', end are
preparing tn snatch a few hon. repose.
In the couree of s brief rids I emoted three
hundred Egyptians dead.
Arabi barely escaped Oar Cavalry, galloping off
alma on a thorgaghbeed nab.