Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-08-12
AFFAIRS IN EGYPT.
What is Being Done by the English
Government in Africa.

What is Being Done by the English
Government in Africa.
The correspondent of the London
Times gives the following account OF a
scare on the picket post. Fifty
mounted Arabs attacked the outpost.
They approached under cover of the
embankment of the canal, and had
almost passed an advanced sentry
before he observed them. He returned
their fire, and then ran back unharmed
to the picket. Thera was some sharp
skirmishing, aud number of shots
were exchanged. AS it was impossible,
owing to the darkness, to know the force
OF the enemy, the picket fell back to
the pumping station, about four hun
dred yards in the rear, and fired from
there, and succeeded i'll driving the
enemy off, Four companies of the
Thirty eighth regiment were sent to the
pumping station, but the enemy had
disappeared. They are supposed to
have been Bedouins."
Persons who arrived from Kafr-ed-
Dowar estimate Arab Pasha's force at
20, 600 Arab Pasha has issued a pro-
clamation accusing the English of
cowardice, taunting them and daring
them to attack him.
Several hundred British marines dis
embarked and occupied the town of
Suez in time to save it from being
burned. No resistance was offered.
All the Egyptian troops fed. The tele-
graph office has been peopened.
Tie following has also been tele-
graphed to Paris by III. de Lesseps:
"lhe English are at war with Egypt
and are circulating report that France
has abandoned the protectian of the
canal, over which the English exercise
police supervision, acting under the au-
thority of the Khedive, who is their
prisoner. 1t Is urgent that this report
be contradicted. We are determined to
resist"
Latif Effendi returned from Arabi'
lines. He reports being present at the
following conversation between Arab
and NIidshipman De Chair:
Arab Would you rather remain with
me or return to Alexandria =?
De Chair RI wish to return.
Arabi-Why
De Chair-My duty is with the guns
at Alexandria.
Arab, then, addressing his officers,
said: "This boy is an example to You
all. Do not allow hair of his head to
be harmed. only wish he was born an
Egyptian instead of an Englishman.
The place of Saturdays engagement
is named Esbet Kershid. General Ali
son estimates the enemy's loss at be-
tween two hundred and three hundred.
One officer of the Mustaphezin regiment
and fourteen men were taken prisoners.
They state that the enemy's force con-
sisted of battalion of the Second in
fantry, regiment l 200 strong and 900
of the Mustapheziu regiment who par
ticipated in the June massacre.
The prisoners, in order to test them.
were offered the option of returning to
the enemy's camp. They all refused,
saying there was great discomfort in
Arab Pasha's camp. They say that
Arab sent as prisoners to Cairo some
officers who had asked what they were
fighting for. The prisoners reckon the
rebel force at Kafr ell Dowar at Is, 600.
The enemy's first line was not in
trenched, but was sheltered partly by
brushwood and houses and partly by
barricades erected with carriages taken
from Alexandria. One of the two
attacking trains had empty trucks in
front to test the line. The track was
found to be torn up near the junction
and the train had to stop to replace the
rails. More than once it was rumored
that Arab was slain.
The Egyptians fought determinedly.
Their wounded were carried to the
British rear and carefully attended to.
Lieutenant Vyse fell while gaIlantly
pressing to the front of the left wing of
the attack. Neither dead nor prisoners
were left in the enemy's hands.
The official report Of Admiral Sey-
mour concerning the encounter with the
enemy of the reconnaissance party at
Mahalla Junction on Saturday last is as
follows:
Our force consisted of 200 men of the
Naval Brigade, with one forty-pounder
and two nine FOUNDER guns, under
Captain Fisher; 1000 marines under
Colonel Tuson, half battalion of the
Thirty eighth and Forty-sixth regi-
ments and all of the Sixtieth regiment.
We had skirmish with the enemy,
which was 1000 strong, with six guns
and six rockets, from half-past five until
half-past seven o'clock IN the evening.
The total casualties to the naval brigade
and marines are two killed and twenty
two wounded.