The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-08-05
EGYPTIAN WAR NOTES.

EGYPTIAN WAR NOTES.
The fort at Gabari was destroyed July
%.
Arab Pasha is the son of an Egyptian
peasant.
Arabi Pasha is in regular communica-
tion with parties in England.
A sholy war" newspaper, the Ef
Jehaa, has appeared at Tamtah.
The garrison at Aboukir, 1000 in NUM-
Der, has declared for the khedive.
Some of tho officers surrounding the
Khedive communicate with Arabi.
! Formidable preparations are being
made around Bosetta and Abonkir.
De Lesseps believes that England's
| only aim is to seize the Suez Canal.
Arabi has levied war tax upon land
to the nominal amount of $500, 900.
The Sultan repndiates England and
will only yield to the wishes of united
Europe.
Emissaries from Arab Pasha have
been preaching in mosques at Mukkebe
almost daily.
The bombardment of Alexandria was
the largest operation of the kind known
to the world.
The Khedive has issued a general Or.
der forbidding the Egyptian army to
obey Arab Pasha.
Arab Pasha asks the Sultan to keer
his troops out of Egypt, and declares his
fidelity te the Calipl,et.
There are now at Alexan dria ten Eng
lisl, two Austrian, one American, one
Greek and three Italian men-of-war.
Egyptian soldiers disguised as Bedou-
ms have carried off ten cases of gnnpow-
der from Fort Mukkebe, ne;fr Meiks.
Arabi has repeated his declaration that
he would not injure the Snez Canal as
long as there was no foreign occupations
The Sultan now declines to Interfere
unless English troops are Immediately
Withdrawn. The other powers upheld hin,
in resisting.
There has been constructed at Alex
andria shore going iron-clad OIL rails,
similar to those used during the Ameri-
can civil war.
NJ. De Lesseps has declared OIL oath
to the notables that as long as he re--
manned 40 French troops would be Ian
ded at Suez Canal.
Rumors from Cairo are to the effect
that numbers of natives dressed in Euro
pean clothes have been paraticd throngl.
the streets as captured British.
Arab has been sustained by IL great
meeting i'll Constantinople of all tho
Egyptian dignitaries. 1t is claimed that
he can mass an army of Il million men:
De Freycilet proposes that France oc-
cnpy the ends Of the Snez Canal with
1000 men to show England she possesses
tie sympathy and moral support of tho
French people.
The only terms under which Arabi
will be allowed to surrender will be
banishmelit for himself aud officers, and
punishment of all suspected of completely
| in the alleged massacre.
The Hoaiteu' Egyptian, containing Il
! proclamation dismissing Arabi Pasha
from tue Ministry, has rearpeared with
+. the heading, "Tl,e official jn',rnaI of the
| government of the kheliye."
Basheb Bey, an officer of Arahi's army,
/ has been arrested and induced to give IL
complete list of the persons with whom
| Arab Pasha was connected, which in
| cludes persons at Constantinople.
| The dam across Malmonlicli Canal is
/. very strongly made, and ia wide enough
| to admit of the passag g. of iunr carriages
! abreast. The position is fortified with
more than one hundred guns, some of
them being krupp guns.
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