ALEXANDRIA.
September 29, Further particulars which are to hand regarding the explosion at Cairo show that ten day's rations and one hundred trucks of war munitions have been destroyed by fire. The loss of life was not so great as at first stated. Five persons only were killed, but twenty suffered severe injury. The official account attributes the explosion to tbe accidental bursting of a shell. September 30. A grand review of tbe British army took place at Cairo to-day, and was a most imposing spectacle. The Indian contingent are now under orders to return, and will leave at once for India. The Guards do not leave Egypt until October 30.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3506, 2 October 1882, Page 3
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