THE XMAS DAY FIGHT IN EGYPT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2659, 3 January 1916, Page 5

THE XMAS DAY FIGHT IN EGYPT

ARABS HURRIED RETREAT j : i By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. January 2/5.5 p.m.) Cairo, January 1. Details of the fighting on Oliristmas Day show that the enemy's losses were greater than at first retried. We 00-1 1 cupied the enemy' 6 position and) camp wostward of Mersa Matruh. Tho Seuussi fled and made a hasty and disordered retreat, losing four hundred in kilied and eighty-two prisoners. A considerable number of camels and sheep wore captured) and a quantity of ammunition and stores destroyed. We disabled an enemy gun. 'i'ho retirement was so hurried that Garraf Pasha, the commander, left in bis office his private papers. Wo liad teii: killed and four officers and forty-nine men wounded. Another column on the 28th dispersed BedouinsVnder Sayed Harun, southeast of Mersa Matruh, and occupied the enemy's camp and seized his water supply. THE BOOTY SECURED, 'AN OFFICIAL REPORT. (Rec. January 2, 11 p.m.) Cairo, January 2. Official: Sayed Harun abandoned one month's supplies—four hundred sheep and ninety camels. The booty secured at Majid consisted of 12,000 rounds of small-arm ammunition, 300 sheep, and 84 camels. TURKISH COMMUNIQUE. 'A BIG CLAIM. (Reo. January 2, 5.5 p.m.) Amsterdam, December 31. 'A Turkish'communique says:—ln the' fighting near Mersa Matruh tho Senussi captured 130 English soldiers.