Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-09-11
FOREIGN,
The AnglO-Egyptian War,

ALEXANDRIA, September l0tb.-Four of
Arab Fashs's officers surf endered this Nor =
lug to the British pickle at Ramleh. Thew
state that fully 300 of Arabs men would do
the san e. did tEey not fear that the British
would fire on them.
In the engagement yesterday, besides the
Egyptians who advanced from Tel.el. Kebir,
force OF l, 800 men crossed the desert from
SaI5lyeh and operated on the right flank of
the British. These troops continued the en-.
gagement after the Tei-el- Ksbir forcs re.
tired: They had a Krupp battery,
which they handled we'll. The British
heavy cavalry pushed them hard.
and finally captured one Krupp gun, with
team and equipments. The Egyptian stand.
ard was taken from the hands of dead
standard. bearer, belonging to one of Arabs
crack regiments. The Salihiyeh contingent
were routed, but the others reached Tel-sI-
kebir in fairly good order. The British loss
was comparatively small, perhaps eighty in
ali killed and wounded. Arabs plan was
well devised, but required better troops to
carry it out. The rebels fought better than
they have heretofore
THE KAssAssN BATTLE.
KAssAssIN, September lOth.-Saturdays
repulss of Arab Pasha is regarded as com.
Pete success for the English, who had never
calculated upon his attacking them in such a
manner. The enemy did not retire until the
English infantry advanced. Arab left about
200 dead and wounded on the field, The
wounded state that the English right was at.
tacsed by five battalions Of infantry, with
i've guns and 800 cavalry, under command of
Mahmoud PashG Sami, from Salihiyeh. The
enemy had altogether Is, 900 men. Saturday
night passed quietly, the enemy having dis.
appeared behind their entertainments. At day.
break Sunday the English began to throw up
RITA pits around Ksssassin, in order to prevent
Arab Pasha approaching near enough to shell
their camp. The picket of the Thirteenth
senegal Lancers charged regiment Of the
enemy's cavalry, rode through them and
killed ten men, losing one of their own,
whose body was subsequently discovered full
of bayonet wounds. The enemy threw MANY
of their own wounded alive into the canal.
The Foot Guards have arrived at the front.
Stores are coming up fast. The wounded are
doing excellently. The loss during the en-
gagement was fifty wounded none killed.
An eyewitness of the battle states that the
enemy's fire was tremendous, and wonders
where those bullets can have gone.
MINOR NOTES.
ALEXANDRIA, September I0sh.- Officers
say only {, coo rebel troops are now at Kafir-
Ell Dwar, and most of them are worn out,
Many are DESTROYS of surrendering, but are
totSiOAE DESNSutSU.
The Khedive assured the British Consul.
General that he had given strict orders for
the abolition of keelhauling," and other
punishments which modern civilization con.
demned.
One Ct the officers who surrendered at Ram
len states that dissension exists ia the Abou-
kir garrison, which consists ia the refusal of
2.OGO raw recruits to be drilled.
kAssAssIS, September 1Osh.-It is learned
from prisoners taken in Saturdays engage.
ment that Ali Pasha Fehmy led the attack of
the enemy.
Two wounded British soldiers have died.
IsMAILIA, September 10th.-The Highland
Brigade, which left Saturday, only advanced
ten miles. The weather is extremely hot, and
the men suffer terribly. Two of them died
from sunstTeke, and few Others are not ex-
oected to live. Two hundred men fell out of
the ranks during Saturdays march.
shipwreek-Deaths.
LONDON, September 10th.-Tbe steamer
Ethiopia has been totally lost eff Loango.
The crew were saved.
Sir George Grey, late Home Secretary, is
dead. i
PARIS. September 10th.-Joseph Lionville,
ssvant and author, is dead.
The French and Arabs in TunIs.
TUNIs, September 10th.-An engagement
is reported near Lairven, in which the French
loss was 80 killed and the Arabs $50.