ALEXANDRIA.
September 3. The British Engineers are engaged in cutting a passage for the sea into Lake Mareotie. This step is being taken in order to flood the dry bed of tne lake and marshes to the south-west of this city, and thus to prevent a flank attack by the enemy. News to band from Cairo reports that the native populace are menacing the Europeans who remain in that city, and their position is considered critical. Tfee British force at Kassassin, on the freshwater canal, is throwing up entrenchments with the view of strengthening the position of the camp. The work of cutting a channel to admit the sea into the bed of Lake Mareotis is now actively proceeding.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3483, 5 September 1882, Page 3
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