The trumpet sounded, and nine hundred soldiers, about half of them unarmed, however, set out for the Arab village of Senari.
When the village was reached the governor himself raised the banner of Egypt, and shouted:
“Down with the Arabs! Death to the infidels!”
Senari was fired on.
The people were panic-stricken.
Men rushed for their houses, and called on Allah to protect them.
Women and children were shot down without mercy.
The blood-red flag of Egypt, with its golden crescent, was not more crimson than the streets of the Arab village.
The soldiers pillaged every house.
Men saw their children hewn into pieces with the heavy swords of the soldiers; they saw their wives mutilated in the most horrible manner, but were powerless to resist.