THEWARIN EGYPT.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2922, 7 August 1882, Page 2

THEWARIN EGYPT.

ABABPS TROOPS REPORTED TO BE WAVERING. A RECONNAISSANCE. BARON DE LESSEES PROTESTS. AUSTRIA, GERMANY, AND RUSSIA ESPOUSE THE CAUSE OF TURKEY. London, August 3. Major-General Sir Evelyn Wood, who is to command one of the brigades, and Major-General Sir B. B. Hamley, who has been appointed to the command of the second division of the British army in Egypt, have embarked tor that country. Alexandeia, August 3. Rumors are current that there are serious dissensions in Arabi’s camp at Zafradowar. August 4. * Major-General Sir Archibald Allison, in command of a large force of British troops, to-day made a reconnaissance of Arabi’s position. The information previously received that Arabi had withdrawn from Zafradowar to Damanhour, a place on the railway between Alexandria and Cairo and 38 miles from the city was fully confirmed by the reconnaissance. Arabi’s outposts were seen some distance from Damanhour. The rumors of an alarming character which have been current that it was ; Arabi’s intention to make a surprise attack upon Alexandria, have been proved by Sir Archibald Allison’s reconnaissance, to be devoid of truth, and that fears of an .attack were groundless:

Count de Lesseps, on behalf of the Canal Company, has made a rigorous protest to Admiral Sir Beauchamp Seymour against the passage of H.M.S. Orion through the Suez Canal; that vessel having recently landed a force of marines at Ismaila. Count de Lesseps protests against the Canal being used by England for military or naval operations. Constantinople August 3.:

' It is conclusively hnowa that the northern Powers—Austria, Germany, and Russia have fully decided, to support Turkey in intervening in the settlement of affairs in Egypt.

The first detachment of Turkish troops will sail for Egypt on Saturday next. Dervish Pasha, who is to command the expedition, will accompany this detachment,