The Worthington advance., 1882-07-20
THE EGYPTIAN TROUBLE
The Matter Coming to a Head-Bom-
bartlInent OF Alexandria-What 1t
is all About.


cession after another. He has been backed
by the army, of course. Ministers have fall
en- under the behests OF his will, and in him,
not in the khedive, at this moment central
ICES the power of his country. AS minister
of war, with the army devoted to his policy,
he leads his country in a movement which
nccessitates the presence of French and Eng
lish ironclads at Alexandria and the threat
ened military occupancy of the country, be-
fore the authority OF the khedive shall be re-
habited and the interests of foreign creditors
Of resistance to foreign interference and
strengthened the Notifications of Alexan-
dria, but will probably give way when the
will of the united powers has been declared.
Tewfk Pasha, khedive of Egypt, was
born in 1852, the eldest son of Ismaii Fasha
who resigned June 49, 1879. His title to the
succession was settled by arrangement with
the Turkish government in 1866, by which
the Ottoman rule of collateral succession was
set asfde. Under his government, as result
Of financial difficulty, foreign influence has
Englan virtually controlling the finances
of the country. He is man of timid and
yielding nature. His subjugation to the
will of his unscrupulous minister, Arab Pa
sha, and the complication which has result
cd fro = it, are consequences of want of
firmness at the proper time. Arabi's success
has grown by what it fed on. He could
have been put down at the beginning of his
rebellious career had the khcdive manifested
the proper frmness.
Arabi Pasha, the rebellious head of Egypt,
as minister greater than his ostensible suIe-
rior the khedive, was scarcely known year
ago. He was then a colone i'll the Egyp-
tian army. Prompted by ambition, a SENSE
of the khedive's weakness, and it may be
a mistaken patriotism Jealous of foreign in
reference in the affairs of his country, he
has gradually gained the power which has
nccessitated the presence of the French and
English fleets in Egyptian waters and a con-
ference of some of the principal powers of
man of far less sense than he seems he will
decline to fight against overwhelming3o 3odds
in defense of the defiant attitude he has u.s.
sumed. Meanwhile the delay of action by
the powers of Europe maintains his power,
which will prove short-lived unless the ma
tions whose duty and policy lie in settling
his difficulty with the khedive, instead Of
doing this, fall to quarrcling and fighting
among themselves. The situation is interest
ing.
The menace to English commerce by the
rash and impetuous Arab Bcy brought down
upon his hot head the heavy ordinance of
Engl'nd's great guns. The war ships opened
their broadsides upon the harbor defense
and the Notifications yielded to the terrible
projcctiles i'll an incredibly short space of
time. -Four forts were dismantled. the work
OF destruction having been mater; ally helped
along through the agency of dynamite Un-
der the cover of the war vessels, marines
were landed, who, entering the Notifications,
planted dynamite under the siege guns and
dismounted them.
British losses were very small. Total num-
Der killed, 5; wounded q; distributed as
follows: Killed OIL the Alexandria, one; Su-
pcrb, one; Sultan, two; Inflexible, two.
Wounded on Alexandria three; Superb, one;
SultarL seven; Invincible, six; infiexible,
two, Penelope, eight. Twelve officers and
men landed from the Inflexible under cover
of the fire Of the Condor and Bittern, and de-
stroyed with dynamite the heavy guns of
Fort Mec.
LONDON, July 13.-1n the ho use of COM
mons Campbell Bannerman, financial Sec
retary of the war office, read instructions to
Admiral Seymour as follows: That as the
opposition of the forts had ceased he should
not dismantel them nor disable the guns;
that he should open friendly communica-
tons with the khedivc and in the absence of
native authorities from Alexandria should
land scamen or marines for police courts
and that he should inform the foreign COM
manders of these measures. The admiral
was instructed to invite the khedive to as-
sert his authority III restoring order A
British force for police purposes was to be
in concert with the khedive or any native
authority in Alexandria, and any of the
European men- of-war were to be invited to
cooperate
off Alexandria, Jul y is, p. m.-Afer day.
break number of persons were seen on the
edge of the water in the harbor. Glasses
showed them to be Europeans. Boats were
at once lowered and crews armed to the teeth
started for the shore They found about 100
Europeans, many of them wounded, who
had gathered in the Anglo bank and fought
selves there throughout the night. Towards
daylight the assailants drew Oft and the par
ty made their way to the shore. They re-
ported that Arab Pasha, before he left with
the prisoners, opened the prison, and that
convicts joined by the lower classes and
some Bedouins, proceeded to sack
the city and kill every Christian
they could find and set the European
quarters OIL fire. From the post they
were defending, the Europeans could hear
shrieks and CRIES and reports of pistols and
beaten to death in their si.ht. The Euro
pcan quarter is all in flames and the great
square is mass of ruins. All the public
buildings are destroyed, and nothing Euro
pean seems to have escaped the rage Of the
fanatics. Several shells seem to have been
fired in the last two hours in that portion of
the city where. the conhagration broke out
in the hope that they may scare the pillagcrs,
and that many pillagers remain is evident
by the fact that several fresh fires have
broken out in the houses.
great friend of Arab Pasha, escaped with
the khedive but left his family at Cairo. A
gunner on board the Alexandria performed
a gallant deed. A lighted shell fell upon
the deck. The gunner picked it up and inl-
mcrsed the burning fuse in bucket of wa
ter. This is described as a wonderful piece
of devotion, more gallant than anything of
the sort ever chroniclcd. The gunner will
be recommended for the Victoria cross. l
interviewed the khedives private secretary af-
ter the khedive got afloat. He informed me on
the afternoon after the bonlbardment Arab
Pasha suddenly ordered detachment OF
troops to surround the Romley palace where
the khedive and Dervish Pasha were await
ing the issue of events. Arab Pasha first
declared the soldiers were only meant for
the protection of the khedivc, but at the last
moment he actually told the men to kill the
khedive. The soldiers, however, hearing
English approaching, deserted their posts
everywhere.
AtAlexandria the Arabs are still looting
the town. Admiral Seymour had determ-
to land force, but the refugees informed
him that 1900 Egyptians occupied position
outside the city for an attack, while Admiral
Seymour could only land 1900. He there
fore. instead of landing the men, ordered
shots fired over the city in order to frighten
the rioters. Twenty armed Europeans who
escaped the general massacre were told by a
pasha, whom they met on their way through
the town, that the Egyptians killed num-
bered over 600. English and French quar-
tcrs Of the city are burned to the ground:
LONDON, July 14.-Reuter's dispatch from
Constantinople says Masuris Pasha, the
Turkish ambassador at London, has tele-
graphed the porte that Earl Granville has