SATURDAY

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 11 February 1915, Page 3

SATURDAY

Cablegrams from Egypt give details of the attacks on the Suez Canal. New Zealand infantry were under fire in the defence of the Canal. Two members of the Nelson Company were wounded, one of them, Private Ham, of Moteuka, being dangerously wounded in the neck. —[Since dead.] The Canal was attacked at three points, and in all 12,000 Turks were engaged. At Tousson, where the most serious engagement took place, the fighting lasted from three o'clock in the morning till half-past three in the afternoon. Two British officers and 13 men were killed, and 58 wounded. The Turks fled, leaving many dead in the desert east of the Canal. The German Admiralty has intimated to neutral countries that after the 18th every hostile merchant ship in the British seas and in the English Channel will be destroyed, " regardless of danger to crew or passengers."