Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-09-12
THE WAR IN EGYPT.
ARABrS ATTACK A SURPRISE.
Brilliant Charge of Thirty Bengal Cav
alry-The Relative LOsses-The Anglo
Turkish Convention.

LONDON, September 1.-THE Daily 7ele-
graphs correspondent at KassassIn views
Saturdays repu!se Of Arab as a complete
success for the English, who had never
calculated on his attacking them In such a
manner. The enemy, the correspondent
says, did not retire until the English in
fantry advanced. Arabi left about two
hundred dead and wounded on the field.
The wounded state that the English right was
attacked by five battslions Of infantry with
five guns and FIVE hundred cavalry under
Nahmoud Pasha. The enemy had altogether
$4,000 men. Saturday night passed quietly,
the enemy having disappeared behind their
entertainments. At daybreak Sunday morn
ing the English began to throw r'ns pits
around Kissassin In order to prevent
Arab from approaching near enough to
shell their camp. A picketoS the Thirteenth
Bengal L1ncers charged regiment of the
enemJ's cavalry, rode through them and
killed ten men, losing one OF their own. The
enemy threw many OF their wounded al We
into the canal The Foot Guards have
arrived at the front. S ores ae coming up
fast. The wounded are doing excellently.
The English loss during the engagement
was fifty wounded and none killed.
The Times has the following from Kas-
sassin "It is learned from prisoners taken
in Saturdays engagement that All Pasha
Fekni led the attack. Two OF the wounded
British have died.
"Prisoners report that the object Of Sat
urday's operation was the capture OF Kas-
sass n, which the enemy bel eyed would be
weakly defended. The Egyptians lost one
hundred killed. The number of their
wounded is unknown
A dispatch to the Times from Kassassin
says "There is little doubt That the first
attack came upon us In the nature of a sur
prise. About O'Clock in the morning
thir Bengal Lancers, who were out to set
videttes, to their assoaishment, sud-
denly found themselves in the pres
ence of three squsdrons Of the enemY's
cavalry and number OF infantry
advancing in regular attack formation. Col
Pennington dismounted his men and opened
a CALLING fire. The three squadrons Of cav
airy advanced to surround min, and being
hard pressed he mounted his men and
charged the nearest body of the enemy with
such fury that he killed ten OF them. Col
McNaughten gslloped back TO camp, and
soon the rest OF the regiment, Iour hundred
strong, came to the rescue"
A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
Company from Alexandria reports that the
firing heard last week behind the enemy's
position, which caused the supposition that
desertions had broken out In the camp,
arose from the active drilling and firing
practice of the new leyles Arab has been
at Tel ell Keblr since the 25 Of August.
A dispatch to the Ce9ltrGI Meas from Is
MALTA, dated midnight Sunday, says: "We
have not yet advanced beyond the ridge,
two miles north of Kassassin, but the out
posts have been drilling and are supported
by infantry"
A ConstantlDople despatch to the Times
says: Earl Granville, the British Foreign
Secretary, declines to accept the proposal
Of the Porte to land Turkish troops at Port
Said"
The correspondent of the Z ines at Athens,
telegraphs that he believes that the Turkish
Government is purposelY preparing g col
lision with Greece, in order to divert Turk.
ish public opinion from Egypt.
A dispatch from Port SAID to the Daily
NerS states that one hundred English men,
ofwar transports used the Suez canal be-
tween August Goth and September 9th, by
which the canal company reshzsd. from
tonnage and passenger dues, 500 600.