The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-07-26
POOP EGYPT

Chicago Tribune: Poor Egypt In
June and July Of last year an English
army invaded the country to put down
The national uprising and enforce the
demands of English and French bond
holders, who had bled the fellaheen un-
til their substance was literally con- |
sumed. From town to town the Eng
lish army advanced, carrying everything
before 1t, until ut Tel-el-Kebir Arab
Bey was crushed, his forces were dis
persed, and the Delta Of the Nile
passed into English hands, where it has
ever since remained. 1t was hopeless
war from the very outset, a helpless de-
spairing struggle against q most mon
strOus injustice OF extortiOnate usury,
collected with the lash and by confisca-
tion.
In this same Delta, in the same towns
through which the invaders marched,
and In the same months of the present
year, q still more terrible foe has enter
cd Egypt, landing at Damietta, where
the English troops disembarked, and
passed over the same route TO Cairo.
The contest with 1t is more hopeless,
however, and the loss of life has been
much greater. No truce can be made
with it. Its advance Is disputed so
fcebly and hclplessly that it breaks
through cordons Of troops with the ut
most ease. 1t has travelled faster than
any army. The 18th of June it attacked
Damietta. The next day it was in Man.
sOurah. The 2SLh 1t was at Tantah, and
the 3Oth at Samanoud. The 18th day of
July it sent a picket into Alexandria
to announce its coming, and then swift
ly turned southwark. The Sd it had
reached Sherbin, and the 9th it entered
Menzaleh. The 14th the suburbs Of
Cairo capitulated, and the next day it
triumphantly entered the city and smOte
its people right and left, in contempt of
British doctors and British cordons of
troops.
It's slaughter already far exceeds that
caused by the war of 1889. 1t has now
been raging twenty four days, and in that
time the press reports haYe chronicled
1921 deaths. This, however, represents
probably but small part of the number
who have really died. Like all Orientals
they care little for reporting statistics OF
any kind. Death to them Is a foreordain.
ed fatality, not worth taking into CON-
l putation. Vital statistics are oflittle con
sequence 10 tatalists. Ismail Pasha
buried thousands of fallaheen in dig.
ging his canal, oil whose number no &c
count was ever taken. The life OF fellah
is estimated at ebout the value of the
life of dog. The number reported
therefore, probably only includes
those who have come under the noticG
of the foreigners and those who have
died in the hospitals-not the crowds
who have died in their squalid novels
and in outlying villages. The lowest
nlmber of deaths per diem thus far re.
ported is forty-three ana the highes'
number 203, yesterdays bulletin an
nouncing 1877. The average per diem is
1873. The great bulk of this fatality has
been in the five cities Damietta, Man.
sourah, Samanoud, Mcnzalch, anG
Cairo. Out of the 1901 death!
500 have occurred at Damietta
$40 at Mansourah, 221 at Samanoud, 1SS
at Menzaleh, and 14s at Cairo. At Dam
I ielta the highest number of deaths
In one day was 141. II is dying ou
there, however, its average of deaths fol
the last two or three days being less thar
twenty. During the last week there hai
also been steady decrease at NJ, n )ur
ali, while at Samanoud and Mem aleh 1
10 on the increase. 1t is dying out il
the places where it first appeared TO
, lack of material. In Cairo II has bu
, Just commenced its ravsges. and though
the highest number of deaths reported
|, in that city in one day is 0S, there j
every reason to believe from outside re
ports that the mortality is four time
greater.
There are we'll grounded reports tina
! the origin OF the original outbreak a
Damielta was the stencil from decayint
bodies This is cary to believe, for il
| COOuI1Go
, invariably follows on the heels of wa;
and there is also good reason to suppos
that the English Occupiers have no
used amy extra amount OF vigilance t.
check its ravages. In some quarters i
is openly charged that they have per
sisted in opposing anything like n rigis
quar- sntine lest it interfere with com
mercial operations. In any event
u people who will starve Hindoo
/. would care little tor the lives of I'll,
sill more inferior fellaheen, and it l.
not diGlcuIt to believe that they hsv,
been remlss in fighting the epidemic
Whether the cholera arose from the loca
cause stated above or whether II CAM
IRON Mecca is of little sccount Wa
and peStilence have filled the cup o
Egypt's misery 10 oveItiowing, ant
another year famine may be expected Il
follow on the heels of this years calam
ity. The responsibility of England is I
terrible one. but the example of her hor
libly brutal, if not ticndish, rule IN In
dia dOes not inspire the hope that Egypt'i
condition will be In any way mitigated
C3l.be Democratic: The end of III,