Morning journal and courier., 1882-07-24
EGYPT.

A Sharp skirmish-Arabi's Troops Driv- en Of-A Panic at Port Said-Famine and Pesti1ence mt Cair0-The People Dying by Thousands.
 ALEXANDRIA, July 2a.--The British infan try and cavalry, which went out of the city Friday morning with explosives to blow up Arabi's Instructions on Mahmoudieh canal yesterday morning approached Arabls in- trenchments. They numbered nearly full battalion. Major General Allison at 9:3O 8. m. left the city with two full regiments of infantry and mounted squad to assist the British advance force in their attack upon Arabi's Instructions. By 10 o'clock the ad- vance guard and Arabis outposts had.an exchange of shots. This was st Malaho on the railway to Cairo, eight miles out from Alexandria. The native troops were engaged in destroying the railroad at that point. The British reports say that the natives were driven away after losing many wounded. Arabi is throwing up earthworks six miles from Port Said. A panic prevails at that port. All foreign consuls have asked the ! commanders of war vessels in the harbor to | take measures to protect the canal and port | and to land a sufficient force to prevent any l uprising of the natives. Arabi has reached Molz canal at Beiadeh, and is now cutting it. This canal extends from Menouf on the east | bank of the Nile to Menzalsh.
 The declaration of Arabi Bey to the Porte 1 says he is acting to save Islam from the inf l dels, and asks the Sultan not to send troops | to act with the unbeievers and if they are sent he will fight them. It is reported that | famine and pestilence prevail in Cairo | Eighty thousand persons are starving and homeless. The majority are camping in the suburbs. A large force of French marines have landed at Port Said.
 | The Mahmoudieh canal has fallen fourteen inches since Saturday morning. The heat is terrible and the water very scarce. The na. | tives show signs of returning hostility to- ward Europeans. Arabi's army is being rapidly recruited under the belief that the that he has thirty thousand men, but many ot them very badly armed
 l proclamation has been issued by tht l Khedive to the army warning them agains following Arabi Bey or participating in hi | crimes.
 this city to-day and was searched. A larg number of arrests were made and dispatche for Arabi Bey seized.
 It has been ascertained with certainty tha Arabi Boy has force of only 5000, witt thirty six field pieces, six Gatlings and
 
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 Fighter in the Present Unplensa mt n ess
 LONDON, July 23.-Major General Sir Arch bald Allison, the eldest son of the first bare net known as the author of the ''History C Europe," was born at Edinburgh, Januar 21, 1926, educated at the universities ( Glasgow and Edinburgh, embraced the mil tary career, obtained commission as captai of the Seventy second Highlanders in 185; served in the Crimea and in the Indian nut ny military secretary to Lord Clyde, losin an at the relief of Laknao became lie' tenant colonel in 1858, succeeded to the bar netcy on the death of his father in 1867, pull lished in 1869 treatise on Army Organiz tion," was appointed assistant adjutant gel eral st Aldershot, October 1, 1870, and wi second in command under Sir Garnet Vols ley during the Ashantee war of 1S73-4, wit the rank of major general. He was rewarde for his gallant services with the dignity
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