Egypt

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 37, 15 February 1915, Page 5

Egypt

THE FIGHT AT ISMAILIA.

United Press 'Association

London, February 13,

The Times’ Ismailia correspondent reports that when the night lighting at Ismailia began a torpedo boat dashed up and landed live men on the eastern bank south of Toussoum. The party stumbled into a Turkish trench, and miraculously escaped and rejoined the torpedoer, which dashed to Ismailia under lire. She enfiladed the enemy, and destroyed pontoons. Twenty of the crew crossed the canal at loussoum and sniped the gunners from the rear until the Indian cavalry capiured them. The Turkish artillery hit a couple of merchantment, but there were no casualties. Sniping continued after the repulse at Toussoum, and a man was killed in the British battleships tops. The Indians at the outset found hundreds of Turkish soldiers in a hollow. The latter fired after signi. fying that they would surrender, and the Indians charged with bayonets and killed, captured, or routed them all. A British officer killed a Turkish clfieer with his sword in single combat. TURKISH FORCE SURPRISED BY BRITISH. London, February LI-

A Cairo detachment of troops lauded up'll - Tor, crossed the hills, and suiprised and annihilated a Turkish, force of 200, whereof 100 were taken prisoners, including a Turkish major. One Ghurka was killed, and one wounded.

Tor (or Tur) is a seaport town ou the east coast of the Gulf of Suez, on the southern portion of Sinai Peninsula.)