Egypt.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 70, 25 March 1915, Page 5

Egypt.

PARTICULARS OF THE GERMAN ATTACK. THE CANAL SAFE FOR MONTHS. United Press Association. (Received 10.25 a.m.) Sydney, March 25. Captain Bean (Commonwealth correspondent) cables as follows : ( The German officer commanding the Turkish camp at Beersheha a fortnight ago sent out an infantry battalion and a detachment of cavalry with a few guns to march to the southern end of the Canal. The expedition seems to have been undertaken more with the idea of relieving the extreme monotony of military life in Beersheha than witih any military object. It may be taken as certain that any real attack on the Canal for many months is out of the question. General von Traumer and three German officers accompanied the expedition, which was seen at Kabai,-north of Suez, on Monday. When the guns opened fire, they retired and camped eight miles hack in the desert. Early on Tuesday General Younghusband routed them, and a few prisoners were taken.

THE TURKS IN UTTER RETREAT. PREY TO VULTURES IN DESERT. I United Press Association. London, March 24. Mr Donohue reports from Constanza that the Turkish army is retreating from Egypt as rapidly as its enfeebled condition will permit. Thousands are perishing of hunger and thirst in the desert, and are falling a prey to vultures, droves of which are following the retreat. The commissariat was an utter failure. Djemal Pasha, bolted, leaving the command to struggle hack as it might. Other officers are struggling hack to Constantinople. Amsterdam, March 24. Djemal Pasha’s proclamation, published in Syrian papers, announces that he is preparing further operations on the S.uez Canal, and hopes shortly to enter Cairo.

FOOTBALL IN EGYPT. WELLINGTON v. NEW SOUTH WALES. Writing from the New Zealand camp in Egypt, Tropper N. Miller, of Masterton, says:—“The Wellington Mounted Rifles played a football match against the New South Wales' team of the Australian forces. The Wellington mouuteds’ team was: Full-back, G. Thompson; three-quarters, T. Forsett. S. Wilder, Miller; five-eighths, F. Poddley, R. S. Chamberlain; half, R. Mason; forwards, P. Dewar, C. Allison, S. McFarlane, W. Coleman, Ronaldson, A. Iggulden (Masterton), J. Ansell, N. R. Chisholm. “The day 'was very hot, like midsummer m New Zealand, and the ground—well, it was hardly Athletic Park, Lancaster Park, or the Masterton showgrounds. The sand was six inches deep, so you can imagine that the game was more like hard work than pleasure. We couldn’t get an Australian team to play, so we took on a New South Wales fifteen. It was a good even go, but we won by 8 points to 3. Wilder Forsett scored for Wellington Mouuteds, one of the tries being converted.”