Show LATEST ELEGRAMS EGYPT Alexandria 17Gen Volseley has decided that the British advance shall be made from Aboukir Troops will attack the Aboukir forts on Sunday The Khedive today visited Gen Wolseley and remained one hour It is reported that negotiations are proceeding for the surrender at Mek of 2000 bedouins now with Arabi Pasha Another report states that Gen Wolseley will make an attack possibly pos-sibly on Saturday morning in two columns one along the route of the last reconoisance and the other byway by-way of Lake Aboukir taking Arabi at a point where his right rear will rest on Manmoudicfe There is reason to believe the young Italian naval officer reported missing on the 15th inst absconded with the intention of giving Arabi Pasha assistance The troop ship Euphrates with the second battalion of the Manchester Man-chester regiment and the battery of royal artillery and the transport Copella with the Duke of Teck have arrived Constantinople 17 Dufferin British embassador has been instructed in-structed not to press the Porte for a reply concerning the military convention con-vention Alexandria 17The transports Egyptian Monarch and Nevada arrived Reports continue to assert that a combined land and sea attack on the forts Aboukir is imminent According to the latest accounts the attack will be made on Sunday morning The Duke of Csnnaught goes on board the transport Orient without delayS delay-S pmThe Fortyeighth Forty sixth and Sixtieth Regiments are breaking camp at Eamleh and preparing pre-paring to embark Two 61M ton guns were mounted within the British lines at Kamleh on Thursday Berlin 17A correspondent of the Cologne ffazeke expresses the opinion that Russia is preparing for a war with rurkey by way of compensation com-pensation for Englands occupation of Egypt Malta 17 The transports Duke of Argyle with a pontoon telegraph tele-graph and railway companies of engineers and the Grecian with a battery of artillery have arrived on the way to Egypt also the transports i trans-ports Lusitanian Ludgate Greece and City of New York Gibraltar 17 The transport Prussian passed today on its way i tq Egypt Paris 17The following telegram tele-gram dated IsmaUa has been received re-ceived from DeLesseps The governor gov-ernor asked me today whether the Egyptians could legally cut the fresh canals from Cairo to Ismalia I replied in the negative I shall communicate my opinion which has the sanction of legal decisions to Arabi Pasha who has always scrupulously respected the rights of the Suez Canal Company Marseilles 17Hiaz Pasha has embarked for Alexandria in obedience obedi-ence to the request of the Kle dive Constantinople 17The report that Said Pasha has resigned is false Alexandria lTfajr Generi Sir Edward Ilumey toitey assumed as-sumed local command in Ham eh Major Generals Wood and Allison have taken command of their respective re-spective brigades Colonel Meihevs is appointed censor of press messages mes-sages London 17The Standard says Geueral Wolseieya parading was for an ostensible purpose and may nave oeen me oesc way or con ceasing ceas-ing his real intentions Before now the enemy has been deceived by means of the press The Standard Stand-ard further says The ironclads iron-clads may increase the deception decep-tion by the bombardment of the forts and at nightfall the fleet of transports may steam back to Alexandria again and disembark troops and the entire British force fall upon Arabi Pashas depleted entrenchments in front of Ramleh It is almost certain that the reports of landing at Aboukir are spread to throw dust in the eyes of Arabi Pasha The Times is quite silent regarding regard-ing Gen Wolseleys intention The News draws attention to the fact that when General Wolseley wrote the first edition of the Sol dips Pocket Book he regarded special correspondents as the modern curses of an army in the field Subsequent events no doubt induced him to modify his views but not to such an extent that he would lightly take them into his confidence wilhout reserve l |