Egypt

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 14, 15 August 1916, Page 5

Egypt

PURSUIT OF THE TURKS. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. London, August 13. The Times’ Cairo correspondent states that the Turks were pursued fifty miles oast of the Canal. The Anzacs continue to pursue with the greatest energy. The Turks have shown groat skill in the rearguard actions. The enemy losses are between six and seven thousand, >and prisoners taken total 3534, also four guns and much equipment and stores.

ANZACS PRESS THE ENEMY.

Press Association—Copyright. Published in “The Times.” London, August 14

Mi- W. T. Massey writes; On Saturday, when the infantry broke off the action owing to the distance from the railway, whereon they depended for supplies, the Anzacs division continued pressing the enemy. It was mainly owing to the Anzacs extraordinarily well sustained efforts that the Turks to-day abandoned their entrenched advanced base at Birelaso, and turned anxious eyes towards El Arish, ninty Guiles east of the Canal. They destroyed a large quantity of material, and were about to bury more when an aeroplane reported the movement. The men were digging beside their camels, apparently intending to dump their loads Jnto the holes, but our artillery played havoc with the scheme. The Turks fought for three days a desperate rearguard action, several fresh battalions arriving in order to extricate the beaten division and their guns.