Morning journal and courier., 1882-09-05
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. WOLSBLBY'S METHODS. NOVEL STYLE OF RUM MING 4 CAMPAIGN. FALSE C0LOR|NG or THE NEWS. A CENSORSHIP OVER ALL PRESS
 REPORTS.
 Arabi's Efforts at fIanking. Attempt to Turn the British
 Position.
FALSE COLOR|NG OF THE NEWS.
EGYPT.

Stormy OutIook-VolseIey's Curious
 Ideas of Conducting the Campaign-
 A Doctoring of the News Reports
 Arabi's Plan of Attack-A Plot Nipped
 i'm Alexandri;l.
 LONDON, Sept 4.-The contradictory and unsatisfactory details of tho operations in Egypt given in the official dispatches of the past week have caused an unmistakable de- pression hsre in military and commercial circles as well as among society generally. It has become impossible to longer disg uise the self-evdent fact that Wolseley, partly through paucity of force and partly in consequence of the inexcusable incompetence of the SUD- ply and transport departments has met with serious check in his projected advance on Cairo. While the spirit of the army is un- doubtedly good and the men evince an ardent desire to be led against the enemy, private letters received from officers and soldiers now serving in Egypt show no such feeling of confidence In the result of an offensive campaign is indicated by General Wolse leys somewhat egotistical dispatches. The stringent regulations devised by the British commander for the censorship over the press and private telegrams which are not only edited by the military authorities at Ismailia, but a second time revised at Port Said) ren- der it difficult to obtain any unofficial infor- nation regarding the actual state of affairs while the news permitted to be sent out is so conflicting in detail from day to day as to excite strong doubts of it's trust wortbiness as whole. Thus are told under date of September 3 that General Wolseley has telegraphed that he will not need the third army corps, only requiring slight endorsements to fill up gaps. This sounds encouraging, but on the same day the war office announces that three battalions of infantry will be at once forwarded to rein force him, ana another dispatch from the front states that the British engineers are en- ! trenching "a camp of defence" at Kassassin, | daily expected" Even military observers ! find 1t difficult to comprehend the plans of 9 commander who announces simultaneous of | fensive and defensive operations on the same \ line, and when a later dispatch informs that the British position at Kassassin ''is so ! formidable that it is hoped Arabi may test his | strength against it," the readers mystifca- | tion increases. The reports regarding the | health of the troops are equally conflicting. General Wolseley telegraphs that the health | of the troops at the front is good, and fol- \ lows this by a staten ent that he is clearing ! out the hospitals and sending away the ! wounded and sick. Next come ominous re- ports of the prevalence of .diarrhoea, dysente- ! ry and sunstroke with few cases of cholera, followed by statement that General Wolse- ley's force the English front numbers l but five thousand men. One day the Highland brigade is officially re ! ported moving rapidly to the front and the next official dispatch states that it will re- l main for the present to furnish working par 1 ties at Ismailia. The unexpected delay in the advance, the attempts to conceal the ! weakening of the army by casualties and sickness and the contradictory character of I the official dispatches have caused grave ap- prehensions here and the belief is becoming general that the campaign is likely to be pro- longed beyond the time so confidently set up | by General Wolseley for it's conclusion. Pub lie dissatisfaction with the slow progress of ! the campaign is becoming more evident daily, and unless some speedy success at- tends the British army it is likely to be loud ly voiced by the press and people.
 ! IsMAILIA, Sept. 4.-To- day large numbers of Egyptian troops are moving down to-
 wards Karaim from Mandarah and those ! previously advanced from Salahieh are again
 active. It is impossible to obtain an estimate
 of the strength of the movement. Salahieh
 and Mandarah are nearly equi distant from
 Karaim, the former being northeast and the
 latter northwest. It is feared that Arab
 means to make quick movements from both | points and another from Tel el Kebir, con I centrating an attack upon Gen. Wolseley ! with three strong bodies of troorA one ir | ! from Alexandria shows that Arabi's forces al l the Meks forts and at Aboukir mean to SC ! engage the British forces at Alexandria ae tc
 prevent any further endorsements thence
 for Gen. Wolseley. Reports from ths ad | vanced outposts show that the Egyptian
 troops are swarming over the country to the
 northeast of Karaim. large number ot
 wounded Arabs were brought here from the
 front to-day.
 All is quiet at the front tonight. The I transport service is slowly improving, but nc
 general adv of the army is probable dur
 ing the week.
 | ALEXANDRIA, Sept. 4.-The rumors of
 consplcracy among the Greeks in this cit,
 were grossly exaggerated. The poorer Creek
 and Arabs in the city are almost starving ant | suffering terribly from thirst. There is only
 half an hours service of water daily anl
 many fail to obtain any supply whatever
 The authorities are arranging to deport th'
 Arabs to Rosella and Damretta and tn,
 Greeks to Levant and to close Alexandria
 against the further arrivals of the poore, I classes.
 ! ALEXANDRIA, Sept 4-The city is throw1
 into panic to day by the arrest of Antono
 Ponla, the Greek consular agent at Els Stout l who, since the war, has been residing 8
 Alexandria His arrest was made at the or I der of the English military authorities ant
 was based on the contents of a letter ad
 dressed to him and carried bya spy, who was
 taken prisoner early this morning as he wa
 attempting to cross the lines. The spy re
 fused to speak, but the letter contained
 strong evidence of plot entered into between ! several prominent Greeks and the leading
 members of Arabis army, for general mas
 sacre of the Europeans in this city at such
 time as Arabi's soldiers might occupy it witt
 the troops employed in engagements with thu l forts at Ramleh Meks and Aboukir Seyera
 prominent Greeks, who have been lately resi-
 dent in Alexandria, are alleged to be impli
 cated in the plot. It is understood they will | al: be arrested.
 I CoNsTANTINoPLE, Sept. 4.-Lord Dufferil
 has informed the Sultan that England assent
 to the landing of 5000 Ottoman troops a l Port Said