ALL QUIET IN EGYPT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2326, 7 December 1914, Page 5

ALL QUIET IN EGYPT

TRIBUTES TO OVERSEAS TROOPS NATIVES IMPRESSED London, December 4. Everything ia quiet and orderly in Egypt. Reports continue to arrive of Turks massing in Syria. London, December 5. Egyptian yeporta stato that the Arabs are deeply impressed with the magnitude of. the preparations to repel the Turkish invasion. The Egyptian officials behaved excellently,, and prevented the Turkish agents from obtaining a foothold among the Arabs. Certain Bedouins, who displayed a tendency to talk sedition, were gently but firmly encouraged to betake themselves elsewhere. —("Times"- and Sydney "Sun" Services.) RAILWAY UNDER CONSTRUCTION. Copenhagen, December 4. A message from Berlin states that the Turks, under German direction, are constructing a military railroad from Maan to the Suez Canal. Maan is'a station on the Hedjaz Tailway running from Damascus to Medina, along tlio old caravan route to Mecca. It is 43 milos distant as the crow flies from the Egyptian frontier,- and 130 miles east of Suez. THE AUSTRALASIAN TROOPS. BRITISH PRESS CQMMENT. (Rec. December 6, 5.20 p.m.) London, December 5. Th'o "Pall Mall Gazette" says' tlie Commonwealth has already reached ev special glory of its own in the war. Yet it is only at the beginning. Of Zcalanders as well as the Australians i : the Motherland is proudly confident and proudly gratoful.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) .WAR OFFICE RETICENCE. (Rec. December 6, 5.20 p.m.) London, December 5. ■ 'Amussmenfc has been caused AUstta*Unas in, Loata ta the w.

r"" the news of _ the arrival of troops in Egypt; 'Anxious relatives besieged the officials, who were instructed to remain dumb, and protested their ignorance. Suddenly the wife of an officer burst in and informed everybody that her husband had cabled her that they bad disembarked in Egypt.—("Time6"- and Sydney "Sun" Services.) NEW ZEAI/ANDERS IN BRITAIN/ (Rec. December 6,: 5.5 p.m.) London, December 5. The newspapers are publishing interesting accounts of the remarkable fitness of the detaohment of New Zealanders now in training on Salisbury Plain. The Army authorities are highly gratified and the men are satisfied with tlieir treatment and surroundings. (Rec. December 6, 5.20 p.m.) London, December 0. _The New Zealand War Contingent Fund totals £6000, and the committee is spending a sixth of the amount in artistic souvenir Christmas cards, which are being addressed individually to the troops in Egypt. Twelve .bngs of Now Zealand lettors have been forwarded to Egypt.—("Times" and Sydney "Siui" .Services.) DEFENCES READY AND NO LACK OP TROOPS. ' (Reo. December 6, 11.40 p.m.) Romo, December 6. 'A correspondent of "If Mattino" interviewed General Sir John Maxwell, commanding in Egypt, who said everything was ready for the defence of the country, and there was no lack of troops.