Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-08-31
CDNTROl LING THE CANAL.
british War sessei. Enter and Take
Possession of DE Lessep's water

way.
THE sUEz CANAL-PoRT SAID occuPIEl.
LONDON, August 23.--The Eastern
Telegraph company announces that
Port said was occupied at 3 o'clock
this morning by the English forces.
Al 2;30 o'clock this afternoon earth
works had been thrown up between
the European and Arab quarters of
the town. Seventeen transports and
five men.of-war are at Port Said, and
Admiral Seymour and Sir Garnet
Wolseley are both there.
DIsARMING THE NATIVES.
A dispatcn from Port Said to the
exchange telegraph company, dated
a. M, says Sailors are landing, and
are disarming the natives, who offer no
resistance. Several transports and
men.of-war are anchored here, and a
fleet, numbering seven, is coming in.
The gun boats Dee and Don have en-
tered the canal. 1t is said Rear Ad-
miral Hewitt has stopped canal traffic"
woLsELEY's ADVANCE.
Some uncertainty still shrouds Sir
Garnet Wolseleys plan of action, but
from one point or another he will GER
tainly have to advance on Arabi's
lines at Kafr. ol-Dowar. Sir Archibald
Allison proved in his recent reconnois-
sance the futilty of attacking from the
front, and Sir Garnet doubles medi-
tates a more difficult campaign. But
Arab Is surrounded with marshes; he
has Lake Mareotis on his left and a
swamp on his right, over which the
British troops will find it hard to march.
He occupies as strong a position as can
be fund in Little Egypt, and can only
be dislodged at great risk. 1t is quite
possible, therefore, that the British will
leave him undisturbed until troops
have been landed at some distance
down the coast, who can advance
across the country, take him in the
rear, cut off his retreat to the desert,
drive him upward to Alexandria and
overwhelm him under its walls. On
the other hand, it is quite possible
that Arab will refuse to be caught
mapping.
IN COMMAND.
expedition Sir Garnet Joseph Wolseley,
G. G. b., G. G. M. g., son of Major G. J..
Wolseley, OF the Twcnty-ffth regiment
of foot, was born at Golden Bridge
House, near Dublin, June 4, 1888, and
entered the army as ensign in 1852.
His first saw service, says the Tendon
Times, in the Burmt sc war of 1928
after which he distinguished himself in
the Crimea and was severly wounded
before Sebastopol. He gained distnc-
ton also in the Indian mutiny and
Chinese war. AS deputy quartermast-
er general in Canada he commanded
the Red River expedition, and subse-
quently, in 1878, was sent out to direct
the operations against the Ashantee
tribes. For his services there he re-
cieved the thanks of Parliament. The
next occasion where Sir Garnet saw
active service was in 1879, when he
conducted the operations against Sc
cocoeni, whose stronghold he destroyed.
Sir Garnet, besides his military employ
ment, has held civil posts under the
Colonial Office. In 1874 he was des-
patched to Natal to administer the gov
eminent Of that colony; in 1876 was
appointed member of the Council Of
India and in 1878 the administrator of
the Island of Cyprus. In 1879 Sir Gar
net went out as High commissioner of
the Transvaal and Natal, and reorgan-
lied affairs of Zululand. Coming home
in 1880 he was appointed quartermas,
ter general Of the Horse Guard. and
lately succeeded Sir Charles as Adiu,ant
General of the army.
Sir Edward Hamley, r. A., K. G.
NJ. G., c. B., WI has been appointed to
the command of the Second division,
served in the Crimean campaign in
1876, including the affairs of Bull
ganac and Mckenzie's Farm, the battle
of the Alma, where his horse was shot;
Balaklava and Inkerman, where his
horse was killed; the siege and fall Of
Sebastopol and repulse Of the sortie on
the Goth of October, 1854, when he was
mentioned in dispatches. He was APP
pointed as Her Majesty's Chief Com
missioner for Delimitation of Bulgaria
in 1879, and of the Turco- Russian from
tier in Armenia in 1880. He is the
author of a valuable military work call
ed "The Operations of War"
Sir Archibald Alison, X. G. B., who
will command the Third brigade, was
born in the year 1926, and joined in
1858 the Seventy-second Highlanders.
He served in the Crimean war, and was
military secretary TO Lord Clyde during
the Indian mutiny. At the relief of
Lucknow Sir Archibald lost his arm He
was second in command in the Asian
tee expedition. In 1874 he was Deputy
Asjutant Generalin ireland, and is now
Chief of the Intelligence Department
at the War Office. Sir Archibald left
England some days ago and is at
present at Alexandria
Major General Sir EVELYN Wood, G..
C. NJ. G., K. c. B., V. c., who has been
appointed to the command of the
Fourth brigade, was born in 1888. He
entered the navy ia 1852 and served in
that profession during the Crimean
war. In 1855 he took commission in
the army. He served in the Indian