Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-08-21
FOREIGN FACTS
Further Particulars of Saturdays
- Demonstration.
Port Said Occupied by the English
Yesterdays Meyements-An-
other Attack to be Made
Today
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS NOTES.
Port Said Occupied.


LONDON, August 20-The Eastern Tele-
graph Company announces that Port Said
was occupied at three o'clock, this morning,
by the English forces.
At3:3O o'clock, this afternoon, an earth
work had been thrown up between the Eu-
ropean and the Arab quarters OF the town,
Seventeen transports and five men OF
war are at Port Said, and Admiral Seymour
and Gen. Sir Garnett Walsley are both
there.
This morning Ismail was also occupied
by the British, and the rebel troops were
driven from Nefiche. e,
The British have possession OF the tele-
graph line from Port Said to Sugz.
Alexandria.
ALEXANDRIA, August 20.-The transports
Grecian, France and kipaul have arrived
here. 1t is probable Riaz Pasha will take
the post of Minister of the Interior in
Chief Pasha'S new Cabinet.
LONDON, August 2O.-A dispatch from
Alexandria to Reuter- says: The intention
TO lombard Aboukir, which was officially
announced Friday, was either ruse or was
abandoned at the last moment. The heet
and transports went to Aboukin7 Saturday
afternoon, but at 1890 o clock at night qui-
etly steamed east and left the AC lilies and
two other vessels in Aboukir bay. These
are, this morning, still anchored i Ithe bay
south Of Nelson Island, from VIII III point
they control the railway to Rosetta, but the
coast from Aboukir To Rosetta shows no
sign of any landing having been m lde. The
white flag is still flying on Abouki- forts.
LoNpoY. August 20-A dispatch from
Port Said to the Exchange Telegraph Com
pany, dated A. NJ, says: Sailors are land
ing and disarming the natives, VIII offer no
resistance Several transports and men-of-
war anchored here, and fleet numbering
seven is coming in. The gunboatS Dee and
Don have entered the canal. 1t is said Rear
Admiral Hewitt has stopped the canal
traffic
PORT SAID, August 2l.-The British ad.
miral commanding here has granted per-
mission TO land the shore end of the cable,
which hitherto has been worked from on
board the ship John Pender.
The German gunboat HabriCht has re-
turned to Alexandria.
The troobs landed from the transports
when arrived to day, and were immediate
" sent to the front. There was Il recon
noiSance in force at three o'clock this after
noon along the Mahamoudich Canal, by the
Thirty.eighth, Forty-ninth, Seyenty-fitth
and Seventy Regiments. The enc
my kept within his entertainments, firing
shells at the British adyencc, but there were
no CauSulties.
The occupying force numbers 900. Two
hundred and fifty Egyptians were disarmcd
without resistance. The government Of
the Khedive has been rcinstated. The
commanders of the Egytian troops are
prisoners in the offices OF the canal com
panv, and their telegraph office is occupied
bv the British. The canal has been closed
to merchant vessels, and the dredges in it
have been seized. The bombardment OF
the GhermiliCh fortifiCation will probably
take place to-day.
The French dispatch boat Aspic left here,
yesterday, TO take the place of the Corvette
Forbin at Suez. The Forbin has gone to
Massauwat to protect French subjects theLe.
The British man-of-war Tamerlne, en-
tered the canal this morning together with
the gunboat Dee, and cleared for action.
The loss of the Egyptian Cavalry is esti-
mated at 300 The fighting ceased at sun
set.
Another Egyptian policeman was rccog-
nized to-day as one of the aSsassins OF June
11th.
Advices from Cairo report all quiet there
up to the 10th.
1t appears that even the general com.
manding brigades were not informed OF
the intended movement on Port Said.
Major General Sir Edward Hamley had
been ordered 10 support the DomoarumenI
of the Aboukir forts by flank attack from
Ramleh, and was unaware Of the real plans
until he opened this morning the sealed
orders be had received
A reconnaissance by the armored train
made this afternoon drew fire from an
Egyptian fifteen centimeter krupp gun,
brt the aim was bad. The British forty
FOUNDERS on the train replied and silenced
The enemy. The Notifications at Ramleh
are being strengthened by Arab laSorers.