Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-21
EGYPT.

LONDON, Aug. .z20.-The Eastern telegraph
company announces that Port Said was oc-
cupled at o'clock this morning by the Eng
llsh forces. At $50 this afternoon earth
works had been thrown up between the
European and Arab quarter of the town.
Seventeen transports and five men-of-war are
at,Port Said land Admiral Seymour and General
Sir Garnet Wolsley are both there. This
morning Ismalia also was occupied by the
British, and the rebel troops were driven from
Nefich. The English have possession of the
telegraph line from Port Said to Suez.
ENTERED THE CANAL.
Adispateh from Port Said to the Exchange
telegraph company, dated a. M, says: Sail
ors are landing and are dsarming the natives,
who offer no resistance. Several transports
and men-of-war are anchored here and fl eet
numbering seven is coming in. The gun.
boats Dee and Don have entered the canal. 1t
is said Rear Admiral Hornet has stopped
canal traffic.
DE IEssEPs PROTEST.
IsMALIA, Aug. 20--M. De Iesseps wrote
Rear Admiral Hornett yesterday as follows:
''It is said that British troops will land on the
bank OF the suez canal. appeal to your
honor as a British admiral that the vessels to
which, according to the bylaws of the com.
pany, we cannot refuse q pilot, be not en-
ployed for the purpose of violating the
neutrality OF the canal which has been secured
by the sultan's firman and the recent declara-
tions of the maritime powers"
NJ. De Lesseps in another letter says: 1.-THE
British admiral has informed the chief transit
agent of the canal company that in cOnse-
quence of his instructions from the British
government, he will prohibit the entry into
the canal, until further orders, of all vessels,
even the canal company's boats, and that in
case of need he will resort to force to prevent
such entrance. The admiral has further placed
an armed gunboat at The entrance TO the canal.
/ protest against this act OF violence and
spoliation."
RECONNAISSANCE IN FORCE.
ALEXANDRIA, Aug. 20.-The troops landed
from the transports which arrived to-day
were Immediately sent to the front. There
was a reconnaissance in force at o'clock this
afternoon along the Mahmoudish canal by the
3Sth, 10th, 18th and 79th regiments. The
enemy kept within his entertainments, firing
shell at the British advance, but there were
no casualties.
ARUSE.
LONDON, Aug. 20.-A dispatch from Alex
andria to Reuter- says: The intention to bonn.
bard Aboukir, which was officially announced
Friday, was ruse or was abandoned at the
last moment. The fleet and transports went
to Aboukir Saturday afternoon, but at 1890
at night quietly steamed eastward, leaving
Achilles and two other vessels in Aboukir bay.
These are this morning still anchored in the
bay south of Nelson island, frein which
point they control the railway TO Rosetta,
but the coast from Aboukir to Rosetta shows
no signs of any landing having been made.
The wfiee flag is still flying from AbOukir
forts.
CANAL CLOSED.
PORT SAID, Aug. 20.-The occupying force
numbers six hundred. Two hundred and
fifty-two Egyptian soldiers were disarmed
without resistance. The government OF the
khedive has been reinstated. The canal has
been closed to merchant vessels and the
dredges which have been seized. The bonn.
bardment of the Ghemileh Notifications will
probably take place to day.
BRITISH REPULsE.
About o'clock in the evening British
iron. clad train was sent out, and car with
forty-pounder detached sent about forty
yards in advance of the engine and fired two
shells upon the Egyptians, who endeavored
| to execute thanking movement. The forty
FOUNDER, after this movement was frustrated,
fired toward Kafr- Dwar. The Egyptians
| replied with shell, which burst between The
train and engine. The train then retired,
| firing during the retreat. Another shell ex-
ploded near the train between the rails. The
| train finally retired without damage. The
British infantry meanwhile fired from an in
trenchment, causing great loss, that of the
Egyptian cavalry being estimated at thirty.
The fighting ceased at sunset Advices from
Cairo report all quiet there to the 10th inst.
PROTEST OF THE CANAL COMPANY.
PARIS, Aug. 20.-Ata meeting OF the Suez
canal company, held here to-day, resolutions
were passed declaring it tine duty of the COM
pany to uphold the claims already made IN
favor of the neutrality of the canal, and to OPP
pose all warlike measures taken by England
acting in her assumed character as asuppurter
to the khedive. The resolutions state that the
| company's concessions cannot be disturbed by
the Sultan and that the company reserves to
| itself the right to claim before competent
| tribunal compensation from England eventu-
ally.