THE DESCENT INTO EGYPT.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 113, 26 November 1915, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE DESCENT INTO EGYPT.

KAISER'S PLAN FOE A WINTER

CAMPAIGN

LEBANON WOOD AND BEERSUEUd. >\AiiiKS CUMMANOUiEREi).

Biblcal place names occur in the latest uermau news horn tne Palestine sector or Armageddon, iieersheba is to be tne starting point ot the next army for the incursion across the Sinai peninsula into .bgypt; the cedars of Lebanuon are to ueeoine firewood ior lack of coal, and the waters of Idunica are to be collected by cement and metal aqueducts for the use of a great army in a thirsty land. Two thousand German officers will lead an unknown number of Turks in the great enterprise about two months From "an absolutely reliable source," the Fans "Journal des Debats/ (quoted by Reuter) learns that guns aud munitions are arriving in Syria, and soliders are now being raised en masse under the 2,1)00 German officers, and armed with new rifles. DESERT COMMISSARIAT. The feeding of the troops is assured by the very line harvest. The starting point of the next expedition will be the ancient town of Bir-es-Saba (Becreheba), an important watering place on the edge of the desert, and all pipes and cement in Syria have been requisitioned for the construction of water supply worke. "A corps of seven to eight hundred meharis (.camelry) has been collected for scouting work. " Under the energetic supervision of the well-known German engineer. Meissner Pasha, the railway reached Bir-es-Saba on August l>. " Coal, it is true, is lacking, but the Lebanon forests have been devastated in order to provide fuel. FROM DAN BEERSHEBA. (The ra'lwoy which has been carried to Beershcba is, no doubt, an extension of the line (projected by French engineers before the war) which leaves the Aleppo-Medina Pilgrims' Line between Baalbcc and Damascus, and runs through Dan, Galilee, Samaria and Judea, to the Joppa-Jerusalem line.)