The daily gazette., 1882-09-12
ARAB1,s SUDDEN CHARGE.
His Attack a CompIete British Surprise
The Object the Capture of Rassassin.

The Object the Capture of Rassassin.
IsMAILIA, Sept. 1.-THE English troops
have not yet advanced beyond the ridge
two miles north of Kassassin, but the out
posts have been doubled and are supported
by infantry. Prisoners report that the
| object of Saturdays operations was the
capture of Kassassin, which the enemy
believed would be weakly defended. The
Egyptians lost 100 killed. The number of
their wounded is unknown.
There is little doubt that the first attack
came upon the English In the nature of
surprise. About o'clock in the morning
thirty Bengal lancers, who were out to set
vedettes, to their astonishment found them.
selves suddenly in the presence of three
squadrons of the enemy's cavalry and a
number of infantry advancing in regular
attack formation. Colonel Pennington dis
mounted his men and opened CALLING fire.
The three squadrons of cavalry advanced to
surround him and, being hardly pressed, he
mounted his men and charged the nearest
body OF the enemy with such fury that he
killed ten of them. Colonel McNaghten
then galloped back to camp and soon the
rest of the regiment, 400 strong, came to the
rescue. They found a picket of hussars
with mounted infantry already posted side
BY side with the gallant party
The British loss In Saturdays engage
ment was four killed and 60 wounded The
Indian contingent to-day advanced mile to
the front along the canal The Highland
brigade, which left Ismailia on Saturday
has arrived here.
ARAB IN HIS STRONGHOLD.
ALEXANDRIA, Sept 1t.-General Wood
and staff yesterday reconnoitered the coast
from Ramleh to Aboukir in steam barge.
One of the officers who recently deserted
from Arabi's army, and who accompanied
them, asserts that regiment at Mandara is
preparing to desert at the earliest
opportunity. Arab Pasha has been at Tel
el-Kebir since the 25th of August.
ALL QUIET AT CAIRO.
CAIRO, Sept. 11.-Everything is quiet
here. The statue of Ibrahim Pasha, grand
father of the Khedive, has been destroyed,
In accordance with a resolution adopted at
meeting of the Ulemas, declaring the
erection of statues contrary to religion.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, Sept. H. 1t is untrue
that Lord Dufferin is finding fault with the
proclamation against Arab Pasha and with
the Military Convention, after having
obtained the benefit of the former documents
Lord Dutferin has informed the other am
bassadors of the facts of the case. The
following has been ascertained to be a cor
rect version of the negotiations All the
articles of the convention had been accepted
by the Turks, including that designating
Aboukir as the landing place for the Turkish
troops. Lord Duiferin had initiated the final
text. After considerable delay on the part
of the Turks Said Pasha declared he was
unable to initial the same and requested a
pOstponement.
Lord Dutferin demurred, but eventually
agreed on condition that the document be
forwarded to him initiated and unaltered
on the following morning Late on the fol-
lowing evening Said Pasha visited Lord
Dufferin and informed him that he was
unable to afflx his initials to the document,
as the Porte desired the troops to land at
Alexandria, Aboukir being unsafe. Next
day Lord Dufferin, on the consideration that
the relations between tine English and Turk
ish troops be on the same footing as during
the Crimean war, was authorized to inform
the Porte that the Turks would be allowed
to proceed to Port Said and thence enter
the canal On the same day Lord Dutferin
was requested to attend at Said Pasha's house
for the purpose of signing the convention.
On his arrival Lord Dutferin observed that 1t
was necessary that the proclamation be
officially communicated to him. He was
informed that he had been published in
that mornings Rdkyt, and an imperfect
French translation was produced and read
was different document from the one
he had agreed to, certain phrase which
Said Pasha had promised to eliminate being
retained Lord Dufferin thereupon said it
was necessary that the text of the new docu-
ment be transmitted to London. He stated
that he was ready to initial the draft of
convention with clause allowing the
Turkish troops to proceed to Port Said. He
was informed that the Sultan desired the
words disembark at Port Said y to be
substituted for the words proceed to Port
Said"
A grand council was summoned to-day to
deliberate upon the relations of Turkey with
England after the issue of the proclamation
against Arab Pasha,
The Sultan, as a mark of approval, has
increased Said Pasha's salary G5O0 monthly
Lord Dufferin has complained of the
fresh arrests of laborers engaged in the
service of the English army in Egypt.