Morris tribune., 1882-07-20
THE EGYPTIAN TROUBLE.
The Matter Coming to q Head-Bom-
bardment Of Alexandria-What 1t
is all About

| national honor. About q year ago Arab,
| then mere colonel in the army, began that
series of impudently aggressive action which
forced the khedive into one humiliating con-
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 movement which
| necessitates 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
| properly protected. He has made show
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.
Tewtik Pasha, khedive of Egypt, was
| born in 1852, the eldest son of Ismail Pasha,
who resigned June 16, 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 aside. Under his government, as result
of financial difficulty, foreign influence has
| dominated, representatives of France and
England virtually controlling the finances
| of the country. He is a man of timid and
| yielding nature. His subjugation to the
| will of his unscrupulous minister, Arab Pa
sha, and the complication which has result
| ed fro = it, are consequences of want of
frmness at the proper time. Arabi's success
has grown by what it fed on. He could
| have been put down at the beg inning of his
| rebellious career had the khGdive manifested
the proper trmness.
| Arab Pasha, the rebellious head of Egypt,
as minister greater than his ostensible supe-
rior the khedive, was scarcely Known a year
ago. He was then a colone in the Egyp-
tan army. Prompted by ambitionsa sense
! of the khedive's weakness, and, if 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
necessitated the presence of the French and
English fleets in Egyptian waters and con-
| ference of some of the principal powers of
Europe. Unless he should prove to be a
man of far less sense than he seems he will
decline to fight against overwhelming yodds
in defense of the defiant attitude he has as
sumed. Meanwhile the delay of action by
the powers of Europe maintains his power,
tons whose duty and policy lie in settling
| his difficulty with the khedive, instead of
| doing this, fall to quarreling and fighting
among themselves. The situation is interest
| ing.
The menace to English commerce by the
rash and impetuous Arab Bey brought down
upon his hot head the heavy ordinance of
Engl ,nd's great guns. The war ships opened
! their broadsidos upors the harbor defenses
and the Notifications yielded to the terrible
| projectiles in 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 81; distributed as
| follows: Killed on the Alexandria, one; Su-
perb, one; Sultan, two; Indexible, two
| Wounded on Alexandria three; Superb, one;
Sultan, seven; Invincible, six; Infexible,
| two, Penelope eight. Twelve officers and
men landed from the Intiexible under cover
of the fire of the Condor and Bittern, and de-
stroyed with dynamite the heavy guns of
| Fort Nee.
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-
tions with the khedive and in the absence of
naive authorities from Alexandria should
land seamen 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 in 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, July 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
desperately. They had maintained them
selves there throughout the night. Towards
daylight the assailants drew off and the par
ty made their way to the shore. They re-
ported that Arab Pasha, before he left with
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 on fire. From the post they
were defending, the Europeans could hear
shrieks and cries and reports of pistols and
guns. Scores of fugitives were cut down or
beaten to death in their sight. The Euro
pean 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 confagration broke out
in the hope that they may scare the pillsgers,
and that many pillagers remain is evident
by the fact that several fresh fires have
broken out in the houses.
Gen. Stone, the American, formerly a
great friend of Arab Pasha, escaped with
the khedive but left his family at Cairo A
gunner on board the Alexandria performed
| gallant deed. A lighted shell fell upon
the deck. The gunner picked it up and i'm.
mersed the burning fuse in bucket of wa.
ter This is described as wonderful piece
the sort ever chronicled. The gunner will
be recommended for the Victoria cross. ]
interviewed the khedive's private secretary af
ter thekhedive got afioat. He informed me Oh
the afternoon after the bombardment Arab
Pasha suddenly ordered detachment o.
troops to surround the Romley palace, where
the khedive and Dervish Pasha were await
ing the issue of events. Arab Pasha frs
declared the soldiers were only meant fol
the protection of the khedive, but at the last
moment he actually told the men to kill the
khedive The soldiers, however, hearing
English approaching, deserted their post!
everywhere.
AtAlexandria the Arabs are still looting
the town. Admiral Seymour had determ.
to land force, but the refugees Informed
him that 5000 Egyptians occupied position
outside the city for an attack, while Admiral
Seymour could only land 5000. He there
fore, instead of landing the men, ordered
shots fired over the city in order to frighter
the rioters. Twenty armed Europeans who
escaped the general massacre were told by 8
pasha, whom they met on their way through
the town, that the Egyptians killed mum
bered over 600. English and French quar-.
ters of the city are burned to the ground.
LONDON, July 14.--Reuter's dispatch from
Constantinople says Masuris Pasha, tn.
Turkish ambassador at London, has tele
graphed the porte that Earl Granville has