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New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6484, 29 August 1882, Page 4

Or: cablegrams to-day report that General Hamley, TTith a large body of irwps, has advanced in front of Arabi's entrenched position at KafradoTrar, and has commenced an attack cpon that place. The British gans have cpened Sre, and vrßen ear news —as seat off an artillery dnel was proie&ding. The Egyptians, hotrever, are said to be ar~--.re:lng the British tire only feebJy, a circumstance Trhi-ch is regarded as indicating that the strength of the enemy has been reduced by the -irithdra-sral ■of a large body of troops for operation* in Eastern Egypt. The last reconnoisssnoe cf Ksfrado-n-ar showed thai Arabi's position there Tras a strong one, asd since than he ij kaofm to hare farther fortified it. Eat in spite o: this advantage, he is not likely to offer any resistance to the attacking force. The morale of ~ r " - troops is said to be very bad. They are ditententes and inntinons, and desertions from Mg ranks are nnmeroas At the frrt Eericms blow hi* rabble will disperse and disappear like mist befcre the asnhg Ban. According to all military authorities the Egyptians are a contemptible foe. Xo farther nghtiag - taken place at Ba-emses, the enemy having retired into the inferior. Sir Game; Wolseley appears to be fraitins for reinforcements before continuing his advance, and he is reported to have sent Ho:ne an application for mere troops in consequence cf which a third army divisicn iormesi at

AJderskoi. Tie Hoval Engineers ia~e arrived at the Eensral Native Ca-raliy have reached Suez, sad are to os sent- to the front. It is coir stated thai the Porte his agreed to the military ■vrii'a Eagland, ra "irhica case it is not improbable that the Tnriish troops vrhkh tfere repsri&d the other csy to have left Hioder, triil be landed in Ejypt. Turhiy has also consented to proclaim Arabi & rebel against tie Saltan- It has announced some time ago that this had already beta done, bat it Tronld appear from osr despatches to-day thai he vras c-aly denoaneed as a rei>»] against the Khedive. To-mono— ire shall probably be able to announce the n-mrs of the capture of .*\afradOTTSX.