Egypt
ENEMY IN FORGE IN THE DESERT. GOOD WORK BY AUSTRALIANS.
Thanm Pkkb* Ashociat.on. (Received 1 p.ni.) Cairo. April 24
Official.—An aeroplane showed that the enemy were assembling in the desert in the neighbourhood of Du!idar. After receiving reinforcements we repulsed an attack by five hundred on our post there, killing forty and making prisoners of thirty; Later, the Australian column, acting in concert with aeroplanes, harassed the enemy in retreat, and inflicted heavy casualties Himpk and guns, and by bombs from the aeioplane. Simultaneously, three thousand enemy with .three guns attacked Tuatn village, and Severe engagement, compelling the small Yeomanry garrison to withdraw.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 17, 25 April 1916, Page 6
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104Egypt Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 17, 25 April 1916, Page 6
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