St. Landry democrat., 1882-07-29
EGYPT.


Trading Points.
The prompt manner in which England is now
dSp1trh:ng troops to Alexandria and Port
| Said and to vital points alon4 the Surz Canal
| shows that she is preparing to follow up the
| advantages lined i'll thu recent holnInr,imoHt
| ana that til" IN stake committed 1T Alexandria
| VIII not be rep ,atcd. Sh" has now about 5000
| troops assembled 1T various points in Egypt
ana VIII need but few more unless the
sh"ll'i ASSUME the character Of a religious up
! rising against the Sultan or foreign Powers
| should intervene. The first of these contin-
gclici"s IS possible the Secoad hardly probable.
PlrSuniIig that the contest is t. be hctw en-
! EgNp and England, it will he ;t very short one;
| Should France second EnglaNd's operations
stl!l shorter. AS military power Egypt is
| wel-nigh contemplate. Her army was rcor-
gained III 1879, when it WAS reduced from So
Goa men to $1,000 and in 1850 arbitrary recruit
ing WAS abolished, and g neral military Serv-
ice like that in Eur0p. intr due d, and the
for military service is oHiy $50 600 per
annllm. The Paris DebntS estimates the forces
III Lower Egypt at 5000 infantry, LOO cavalry,
ana i,oO artillery, with local troops i'll Upper
Egypt, composed of irregulals, of about the
same numerical strength. The infantry are
armed with RcnIingtons and trained on the
French system, while the artillery are armed
with krupp guns and train "a on the PrlIssan
system. As compared with the English forces
now in Egypt, the Egyptian army may he for
mi''&!'t@ in numb rs, but this advantage is
cuEnt"rbalancnd by their cowar !icr. In no
instance in n d"rn warfare have they shown
themselves possessed of sp!dierly qualities. In
the Crctan insurrrctiOn SOD of them w re al
most hnnhllatcd by 1910 rebels, ana before
the lilsurrectlon was over TIL Crc';.n' took
| croWGs OF prisoners whom they would allow
to go unframed. saying that they did not
want to Kill sheep At the storinin- of
Arkudi the Turks placed The Egyptians in
front where they could not run away. In
the last war between Russia and Turkey Egypt
sent IL contingent of $4,000 men, who broke and
ran the first time they were under fee. Prior
TO this time no less than three Egyptian armies
had been defeated and almost ann hiated by
inferior forces of Abyssinians. 1t is difficult,
indeed, to find any instance WHERE the Egyp-
tians have displayed any courage in modern
times. The events which have happened since
the bombardment Of Alexandria confirm this
Arab Bcy fed out of the city with his troops
without firing shot NJ. Gabriel Charmcs the
correspondent of the Paris Debats. who was in
Alexandria during the earlier riots, says that
but for the interference of the troops the Euro
peans would easily have quelled the mob of
Arabs He says: "All the Arabs were armed
with long slaves tppei with iron points; but
their native cOwardicc placed them 1T tiisad-
vantage. They almost exclusively attacked
stray individuals, and invariably took to their
heels when encountered by crowd. Their
flight. however, was not easy. The Europeans
pursued them and knocked them over by hun
dreds, showing how easily a few mon of cour-
age can dispose of an Eastern mob The
troops put in an appearance and took the part
of Hn in lott tbo
Egyptians are mere flock Of sheep and he
imputes their boldness to the fact that
preparations were made against them as
though they were formidable enough to be
seriously attacked, and then the preparations
were not followed up. An American officer
who recently led Egyptian soldiers in .Abys-
snia informed the correspondent of the. Lon
don Std,tcturd that 5000 English soldier and
sailors would scatter the whole Egs S,ian
army like chatf before the wind, and in our
own dispatches yesterday morning it was
stated that during the alarm Saturday night
10 Bcd1uins at the Gahanz gate fed before
the attack of a midshpman and twelve
Sailors 1t is possible should Arab Bey re-
treat into the citadel of Cairo he might give his
besiegers some trouble and as this citadel may
yet figure conspicuously in the campaign we
give the following description of it from the
London Globe:
renes call twas erected by Sultan Saladin
in 1l66. The steepness of its situation the
strength of its walls formed, Us tradition
says, out of blocks of stone brought from the
smaller pyramids of Gizeh), and the krupp
guns with which they are now armed, would
render it an important position from which to
overawe the city, provided the Mokattam
hills, Immediately behind it, were occupied by
The same hands This range completely com
hands the citadel, and it was by erecting and
lrming battery here that Mehemet Ali OBJ
aimed its surrender when it was in the pos
session of khoorshid Pasha. Arab has the
uck to be in possession of both these points of
7antage. Almost his first thought, when
arose, was to strengthen the
dOkattam Notifications
AS the citadel has not been impregnable,
however, in the past against forces much more
poorly armed than the English with siege ma
era, its reduction would only be a question
# short time, especially now, as the French
re about to cooperate with the English in
heir land operations. So far as the military
occupation is concerned, that will undoubted-
? be speedily accomplished. What may be in
tore politically remains to be seen.-Chicago
Tribune, july 10.
The situation in Egyptis interesting because
is out of the line of precedent rather than
ecause there is danger of renewed conflict
he khedive, the recognized head of the Gov
after being rescued from his own
rmy by the British is sending orders to his
abellious War Minister to quit his msbehav-
lg. Arab having become tired of the tele-
raphic scolding, has cut the wires, and horse
len have been sent out after him. In some
ay it has been learned that Arab has ap-
ointed Ali Feima to the command of the Suez
anal. The khcdive has the Government and
rabi has the army. Somebody at Cairo is
ending Europeans north under guard. and Al
xandria is patrolled by European and Ameri-
an marines.
Such state of affairs could not exist except
a country like Egypt, and in considering
lie question of Intervention it must be re-
rendered there are at Cairo, Alexandria and
1880 Italians, $3.50 Austrians.
900 Englishmen, LOO Germans and 1,4OO ma
YES of other countries. None of these are
tizens except as their rights are guaranteed
the supervising Governments OF Europe or
Y act of the Khedive.-Chicago Inter Ocean,