ADVANCE OF THE TURKS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2373, 1 February 1915, Page 5

ADVANCE OF THE TURKS

BRUSH WITH ENEMY'S OUTPOSTS

ATTACK NEAR SUEZ REPULSED

BRITISH GUNNERY I NORTH SEA ENGAGEMENT

DEADLY ACCURACY TERRIFIES THE GERMANS

SCORES JUMP OVERBOARD

For this country end Australia, at any rate, the most arresting features of to-day's war news are the significant movements of the Turkish advance posts operating near tho Egyptian frontier. An attack on one of our advanco posts near Suez has been easily repelled." The New Zealand Defence Minister to-day gives a hint, which, read iu conjunction with tho cable news from Cairo, seems to point to tho probability of our troops in Egypt being given <their first tasto of actual fighting in tho near future. Further stories from German survivors of the North Sea fight show that tho magnificent and deadly gunnery of the British spread terror amongst tho Germans as tho great shells swept their decks, and many were so horrified at the awful carnage they beheld that thoy jumped into the sea, preferring death by drowning to being blown to the winds. Evidence is accumulating to slier that the damage to the raiding squadron was more widespread and effective than first reports made it appear. There is considerable activity along the battle-fronts iu both Eastern and Western theatres, and in all cases the Allies are said to have held their own. Tho Germans have made a vain attempt to break the French lino on the Aisne. Severe fighting has been taking place in Flanders, where the Allies have been consolidating their line, in tho neighbourhood of Lombaertzidi, near the Great Dime. Tho enemy's losses were very high, and "ours was serious."' The Kaiser's Birthday attack was afailure, and tho spectaclo of his troops being ousted from their positions must havo been a mortifying one to tho "Ward Lord.