The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-07-20
THE EASTERN FKAoAs.
Massacre of Christians at Alexandria
The Egyptian Question Discussed
In Commons,

L
The Egyptian Question Discussed
in Commons.
LONDON, July ia correspondent
on board the Invincible telegraphs as
follows:
OFF ALEXANDRIA, July Is, p. m
Alter daybreak this morning a number
of persons were seen on the edge of the
hafbor Glasses showed Ia, m to be Eu-
ropeans. Boats were at once lowered
and the crews fully armed started for
the shore. They found about one hun
dred Europeans, many of them wounded,
who had gathered in an angle of the
Egyptian bank and had resisted desper-
ately.
They had maintained themselves there
throughout the night. Towards day
light their assailants drew off and the
party made their way to the shore. They
reported that Arab Pasha. before he
left with his troops, had the prisons
opened, and that the convicts, Joined by
the lower classes and some Bedouins,
proceeded to
SACK THE CITY
and kill every Christian they could
find, and set the European quarters on
fiIc. From the port they were defend
ing the Europeans could hear shrieks
and cries and reports of pistols
dlu guns OCoT6S oi iuSitifcS
were shot down and beaten to
death in their sight. The European
quarter is all in flames, and the great
square is mass of smoking ruins. All
public buildings are destroyed, and
nothing European seems to have es-
capped the rage OF the fanatics.
Several shells have been fired within
the last two hours into that portion of
the city where the conflagration broke
out in the hope that they might scare
the pillagers. That many pillagers re-
main is evident by the fact that several
fresh fires have broken out in the last
close to Ramleh. Two ironclads are
cruising near and will fire upon any
men approaching the palace.
An officer just returned from the tele-
graph ship Bittern reports the scenes
of carnage on shore as appalling.
The town for some hours after the
| troops left was a veritable pan6emoni-
UNI. There is a suspicion that the forts
are undermined, and they will be care
fully examined before any large bodies
of troops are allowed 10 enter them
AboukIn is as yet untouched. A thou
sand men are known to be entrenched
there.
No reconnaissance have yet been
| made of Rosetta and Damietia forts
Fugilives say the losses of Egyptian ar
tIllerymen during the first days bom-
| bardment were very serious. The IN
fantry did not suffer.
IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
Campbell Zimmerman, secretary of war,
| offered Instructions to Admiral Sey-
mour as follows: That as the opposi-
ton of the forts had ceased, he should
not dismantle them or disable the guns.
h., Zl,
munications with the khedive, and in
the absence of native authorities from
| Alexandria, he should land seamen and
marines for police purposes, and that he
should inform foreign commanders of
these measures.
The Admiral was instructed to invite
the khedive to assert his authority in re-
storing order. The landing of the British
force for police purposes was to be in
concert with the khedive or any native
authority in Alexandria, and any of the
European men of-war were TO be invited
to cooperate.
Protests were made from the conser-
| vative benches against the feebleness of
| these instructions
Gladstone, replying TO the question,
said the government had not yet been
informed where Arab Pasha was.
Northcote asked why the government
had not done something to prevent the
terrible events in Alexandria.
Gladstone replied that the government
could not have anticipated them.
IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS
Earl Granville, foreign secretary, stated
| the assistance of troops, they would be
sent. There was he said, no reason to
believe that any of the great powers re-
| garded the bombarding of Alexandria
as other than the act of self defense.
Various statements are published
showing that the government is making
| arrangements to lay temporary railway
for the conveyance of troops into the in
terror of Egypt should 1t become neces-
sarv.
ESTIMATED AT 1900.
| i dispatch 10 the News from AleXan-
dria says the number of persons mas
sacred by the mob is estimated at 1000.
Admiral Seymour telegraphs; 81 have
occupied Rasel Pin palace with marines
and spiked the guns in six batteries OPP
nosite. The city is still burning, but l
am clearing the streets. The khedive is
safe in the palace which is garrisoned
| by 700 marines.'
| OFF ALExANDRIA.-The firing heard
| in Alexandria yesterday was by the ma
riues and soldiers who were
/
| with Gattling guns. A small detach
men first landed and had 10 wait for.rein-
forcements before they were able to push
to the centre of the town. There was
some short, sharp-ighting. No water
could be obtained, owing to the stop
page of the works. There are some
| French ladies among the fugitives res
cued yesterday, also the Egyptian project
| of police, who was the instigatOr of the
| massacre in Alexandria on the 18th of
June. There are not enough sailors and
marines to occupy all the streets OF the
city.
| LONDON, July IA dispatch from
| Alexandria SAYS: "Some field pieces
| were landed with the marines at Ras ell
| Tin fort.
| A whole battalion of Arabs was blown
up in one fort during the bOmbardment.
A dispatch to the News, dated off Alex
| andria, July IA, a. m, says: The fire
| in Alexandria is still raging. There are
at least two miles of houses burning.
More than third OF the city appears to
be on fire.
| EXPECTED AT PORT SAID
| LONDON, July 14-An Alexandria
| dispatch says: General Sir Garnett
| Wolsey is expected at Port Said Sunday.
/ If Arabi Pasha makes a stand at Reset
Ia or Damauhaur Sir Garrett will have
to proceed to Alexandria. The marines
who spiked the guns found fifteen Arm
strong guns of the newest pattern, some
| of them disabled. Beneath one were
| seven dead bodies. A body ofone hundred
/ and fifty marines hold the arsenal gate. At
the custom house gate there are one hun
dred and ninety marines with gattlIng
/ guns, who will remain all night The
marines have killed many hooters. A
crowd with n green flag passed down
tiers, shouting.
| CONFLICTING THE WORK OF DESTRUCTION.
The Arabs are still looting the town.
Admiral Seymour had determined TO
land his force, but refugees informed
him that 1000 Egyptians occupied the
position outside the city
READY FOR ATTACK,
| while Admiral Seymour could only land
800 men. He therefore, instead of land
ing the men. ordered ahats fired over the
lefty in order to fFighten the rioters.
Twenty armed Europeans who escaped
the qeneral massacre we're told by a
pacha they met on their way through
the town that the Egyptian killed num-
bered over 900. The English and
French consulates are burned to the
ground.
ARAB PASTA A REBEL
| CoNsrANTINoPLE, July 14.-In last
evenings meeting of the council the
prime minister said the pacha maintain
ed that Arab Pacha was a rebel and
must be treated as such.
Il ALEXANDRIA, July II p. m.-The
| v,o-;,-, -, iIla,,xr r..r1r1iafi fort NapoIaOn