Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1882-09-27
EGYPT.

Lord Dufferip informed the Porte that
British military operations in Egypt nave
ceased, and as England is about to withdraw
portion of her troops the Sultan might de-
eide whether IL was necessary to sign the
military convention. Twenty prominent
rebels captured at Cairo will be tried by
court martial A number of prominent
Egyptians are still ut large. Alexandria dis
patches of Sept Is announce that the British
had occupied kafr- -Dwar and Damietta,
and that the commander Mt Aboukir bad sig
niied his readiness to surrender. The official
journal at st Petersburg says Great Britain
will not be allowed TO settle the Egyptian
question alone. The London Tinies insists
that the rebel army must be replaced by gen
darmes TO maintain civil order.
When the garrison at Aboukir marched out
to surrender, on Sept Is, an entire regiment
decamped To join Abdella Pasha at Damietta,
who refuses to surrender The rest of the
garrison, numbering 1000 or 5000, proceeded
To Kafr-el- -Dwar, were disarmed, the men
dismissed TO their homes and the officers
detained Arab, because of dread OF
poisoning, had his victuals cooked by
members of his family while ut Katr Ell
Dwar Tantah had been occupied by the
British and service ON all the railroads
had been resumed Natives with torn and
bloody clothing had been paraded In tho
streets OF Cairo by Arabis orders as repre-
senting brutal treatment by the English.
Gen Wolseley claims to have good reason
for the belief that the resistance at Damietta
was inspired by the Sultan, who has quite
recently been in communication with Arab
Pasha One of the participants in the june
massacre was hanged at Alexandria
Abdellal Pasha, who commanded at Dami-
eta, surrendered to the British on the 18th
of September. With the surrender of Abdel-
lal ceased the last remnant Of organized re-
sisrInce to the authority of the Kncdiye.
lni that funct.onary at once proceeded to
Caro- the capital city. under escort OF In
dian cavalry The entire population OF
Zagazig is again at work In the fields, the
telegraph censorship has been abolished, and
trains have been restored between Cairo and
kafiI -el Dwar The civil government of
Egypt is the next grave question To be con-
s,deIed, and the establishment of a gen.
darmerie otiicerod by Englishmen is already
seriously discussed Turkish newspaper
advises that the property OF the rebels be
ccniiscatcd and distributed among the
sufferers from incendiarism and pillage
Efforts are being made to secure the services
of "A prominent English lawyer to defend
Arabi IL capital sentences are passed ON
the Egyptian leaders, they must not be
carried out without the consent of the
British Government is first obtained.
An Alexandria dispatch states that Arab
Pasha was i'll i'm prison, and had for COM
panion Mahmoud Fehmy, his Chief Engineer
Disturbances and outrages prevailed in tlee
INTERIOR and the houses and fHctories OF
Europeans were being robbed and burned
Wholesale arrests of Arabis supporters were
being made Arab insisted that all his acts
were instigated by the Khedivc and the
Sultan.
An Alexandria dispatch, of Sept p, states
thnt Gandeel, who was Prefcct of Police at
Alexandria at the time of the massacre in
June, has been captured by the British and
placed In irons One thousand Bedouins had
occupied tho intrenchments at Kafr -Dwaf
which the British abandoned. Arab, while
in power despoiled the national treasury OF
saoa00e, sls,000 Of which has been reoov-
cred The Ambassadors advised the Porte
to act In accord with the British policy I'm
Egypt Arab and all OF his supporters the
dispatches stated, would be tried by court
martial
dispatch from Alexandria says that
property I'm that city valued at fl 600, 600 viii
be confiscated to indemnify sufferer,
by the massacre Damietta surrendered o,
the I'D of September. All rebel officers Al
Eamleh below the rank of Colonel have beer
released The English have abandoned tn,
works erected at Port Said The Princes
Ibrahim, Hamid and Kamil, who signed the
petition asking for the deposition of the khe
dive last Nav, called at the palace in Cairo
but We're ordered to leave at once.