At the Red Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 88, 20 March 1916, Page 8

At the Red Sea

SKIRMJSH NEAR ADEN. TURK FORCE REPULSED. [United Press (Association.] London ,Mareh 18. Official: A Turkish force, accompanied by three German officers, attacked a British outpost at Imad, ten miles from Aden, on Thursday. They were heavily repulsed and were pursued for i four miles abandoning seventeen dead. Our losses were one Indian killed, and a British officer and sixteen men wounded. BEMUSSI AT SOLLUM. ARMORED MOTOR-CARS AT WORK. London, March 19. The Press Bureau gives t British account of the fight at Solium on March 14th. Armored cars, under the Duke of Westminster, played a very dashing part in the action. An aeroplane reconnaisance in the morning showed that the enemy's camp at Birwar was empty, and orders were immediately given to rush forward with reasonable boldness. The cars found bad going for eight miles till they reached the Derna Road, where they incerased speed to' forty miles an hour. They passed one hundred armed Bedouins, fleeing west, ward but ignored them, and then signted the main camp, twenty-five miles west of Solium.

As the cars approached the enemy the latter opened with one. gun and two machine-guns, which were smartly handled, but the teams were shot down from four hundred yards. Then the cars dashed into the camp and the enemy scattered broadcast. Tbe cars pursued them, but abandoned the chase after going ten miles, fearing the petrol would give out, but they gathered in all the enemy artillery and rescued ninety members of crews who had been shipwrecked on Hip coast of Cyrenaica and taken prisoner by the Senussi. Thus a very skilful little campaign was successfully concluded.