THE TURKISH MARCH ON EGYPT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2383, 12 February 1915, Page 5

THE TURKISH MARCH ON EGYPT

. SOOTS THE WATER PROBLEM : i PORTABLE RESERVOIRS FOR THE DESERT MARCH ?, f ' London, February 10. } : The "Evening News'' Cairo correspondent- states that two/irbri. bdats_.be« . longing to the Turks were : captured at Suez. Each will hold forty men/They are elaborately finished, and. can be used either as boats or as pontoons for a bridge. They have special' silent witH : in'etftlblades'. The boats were used as Water reservoirs on the maroh over the desert.'A number of similar boats on; the Canal banks were riddled with bullets. , : ; "Cairo, February'>ll. . Aa eye-witness of the recent fighting says that the British, fire was. deadly j..; aociuate. The Turkish dea& wew> lying levei^here^^gh^ly'sight ofr ■ them headless and limbless. "If," he says, "the Turks event \ were merely testing the Caitol defences, they must now that they,i are impenetrable." 1 1 , "" PROSPECTS OF" A FURTHER, 'ATTACK. ' ~ (R|so. February 11, 5.50 p.m.) - ,London, February..lo,;;;jV "The Times's" military correspondent 6ays that General Maxwell's, pro'J ; parations for the defence of! Egypt have bean- tested. • and -fouad > : The Turks have proved that they can oross the desert m some strength,, ..anw bring heavy guns. "We mnat therefore suppose," he oonoludte,'' that, the at^, tack will be renewed;"—" Times" and Sydney "Sufi" Services.