Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-07-27
LATE PHASE OF THE WAR
Blood Will Now Flow in Torrent.

Pasha rebel, and forbidding the peo
pie to pay him taxes. The Mahmou
d:eh canal has fallen fourteen inches
and no water has been supplied to the
public since yeete1day noon. The
mail steamer from Constantinople ha.
been embargoed on suspicion of carry.
ing letters to Arab Pashi, and is guarded
by four British steam launches.
proclamation by the khedive ask
the people to assist the Eng
lish in promoting the real inter
ests of Egypt. The troop-ship Mala
bar, with eleven hundred British in
fantry and battery, arrived at Alex
andria last evening. There are sale
to be eight thousand destitute persons
camping in the gardens at Cairo. Ara
bi Pasha has massed seven hundred
cavalry and field gun at the pump.
ing station of the Ramleh water-works,
with the evident intention of destroy
ing it.
Ell MEHDIS ADVANCE.
The Soudan prophet who, acting as
an ally of Arab, has produced such q
CONSERVATION among the Mohamme
dams, has arrived in Nubia, Upper
Egypt, not far to the southwark oI
Thebes, where four thousand years age
the historian tells us, the Nile was
bridged from shore to shore, and 5,000,.
coo people were worshipers in the tenn.
pie of Boolak. The ease with which
this prophet has been able to effect the
virtual conquest of the Soudan, with
its sc, 100000 souls. is not surprising
when the isolation of that central Afri-
can region from the parent gov,
ernment at Cairo is considered. Ismail
THE PROPHETS ARMY.
With recruits like these different
races Of the Soudan-having the blood
of the negro, the Saracen, the Turk,
and the Egyptian, and fired by the
Moslem enthusiastically Mehdi has
had no difficulty in arousing a popular
uprising along the line of his march,
which has brought him eight hundred
miles to the northward of Khartoum
and within one thousand miles Of Cairo.
AS it is now high Nile where he and
his followers now are-that is, near the
first cataract-the journey down the
river can scarcely be any considerable
effort, as the velocity of the stream is
three miles an hour. There are al.
ways at that point of the river many
transports, nuggers, and small fleet
of steamers. His other means of trans
portion Of his horde consist of
the many thousand camels and drome-
daries which can be driven in from the
desert, both as baggage conveys and to
mount the invading force. Passing
through Nubia the prophet will find a
wretched country, peopled by wretched
natives, for whom Ibrahim Pasha
found no better use on his pleasure
journeys on the Nile than to make
them the target of his fire, in order to
test the accuracy of his aim, with
weapons presented to him by the sover-
eigns Of Europe. From the frontier OF
Nubia, moving down the Nile. the in
vaders will find abundant food, abundant
forage for the camels, and, of course,
no lack of water. But the fellaheen
allies, as they are unarm ed and unac-
customed to weapons more dangerous
than the shepherds crook. It has always
been the policy OF the Egyptian gov
eminent to prevent the cultivators of
the soil from having arms. The force
on its journey to Cairo will pass over
fertile and highly-cultivated estates.
through sugar and corn plantations, by
thick settlements, and will indeed be a
novelty the people. Not since the days
af Ethiopian prowess, in ancient times
has there been such a barbaric incur
sion. What its effect may be when ar.
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owed, but one fact is certain, there is
no hostile power that can now be mar
shalled in Egypt to stay the inflow of
the prophet and his followers. Three
weeks hence, and he can plant his en-.
sign on the citadel of Cairo, when the
world will eagerly watch the result oil
! this strange crusade.
THE MAMoUDEIH CANAL.
The position in regard to the water
supply is becoming alarming. There
has been sensible fall of the Nah.
mOudeih canal of two inches. Unless
more troops arrive soon to enable Gen.
eral Alison to drive Arabi Pasha from
the pumping stations the consequences
will be terrible.
1t will not be surprising if Arab Pa
cha's measures in regard to the water
supply of Alexandria leads to an i'm.
mediate advance of the British troops
Major General Alison has telegraphed
home for instructions. An Arab spy
states that the damming of the Nah.
moudeih canal has flooded the country
The water in places is knee deep
making the ground too soft for the
movement of guns. Major Gener.
al Alison will leave here to-mor-
row with a detachment of troops tC
blow up the obstruction in the Nah.
moudieh Canal. A rifle regiment have
occupied fort for 400 yards outside
of the Rosetta Gates. These are the
only British troops outside the walls
In the city native has just been shot
while attempting to set fire to a house
in the centre of Alexandria. All the
French ships have left here and the
United States flagship has gone to Brin
disi. The markets and the Bourse are
reopening for business. Lieutenant
Piggott, of the Monarch, and two sail
ors, by dint of climbing, have reached
the lantern of the lighthouse. and re.
lit the lamps. They found the stair
case cut away by shell.
The khedive reports that he has
learned that Arab Pasha's troops are
still further damaging the canal a
Baiadeh
THE SUEz CANAL.
Now that the English army are aftel
Arab at Cairo, he will doubtless de
stroy the Suez canal. The war will
thus be shifted to the canal, and it:
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