BRUSH IN EGYPT

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 130, 4 February 1915, Page 5

BRUSH IN EGYPT

TURKS DHiVEN OFF. CAIRO. Feb. 3. The British met trio enemy in the vi hilly cf [sEisillU on Tuesday. The enr;ny's ardour was .'rheclfcd by a sandstorm. Their shooting was bad, and they eventually retreated. A Turkish attempt to bridge the Canal at Tcussoun was repulsed and the bridging material captured. SUBMARINE ACTIVITY. AUSTR ALASI AN TNSU R ANCE RATES INCREASED. LONDON.. Fob. 8. Owing to submarine activity insurance rates to and from Australasia -iv~ 20/- rising on the full market to 30/-. ATTEMPT TO TORPEDO HOSPITAL SHIP. NARROW ESCAPE OF THE ASTURIAS. PARIS. Fob. 3. (Official). —A German submarine lived a torpedo at the British hospital ship Asturias, off Havre, but missed. NO EXCUSE FOR THE OUTRAGE. SHIP'S PURPOSE DISTINCTLY SHOWN. LONDON Feb. 3. The Asturias was painted white with large red crosses on the sides and funnels. There was not. the slightest e»

cuse for the outrage. APPALLING GERMAN LOSSES. TERRIFIC. ONSLACJGHT ACAIMS'! RUSSIANS. ATTACKERS WIPED OUT. LONDON, Fob. 3. The Morning Post's Petrograd correspondent states that the Germans on Sunday made a'temporary success in the country in the State of BarjimoiT, whore they have lost tens of thousands since December 22nd. This is the result of the system of sending ten companies to certain annihilation in tne hope that the eleventh may succeed. When the system failed, the Germans tried sapping. Early .on Sunday morning they concentrated all their artillery between Scklaezow and Bolimov before two miles of trenches at Boiojimoff, where 0000 Germans were hilled during the previous week. A hurricane of fire enabled them to rush thfl trenches. The Russians brought up ad ditional artillery. A series of bayonet charges later on Sunday recaptured practically the whole of the two miles. The German losses were appallirg.. COPENHAGEN. Feb. 3. One hundred and thirty seven Prussian lists contain 926,5+7 casualties, including the following: 141,000 Bavarians, 100,000 Saxons, 104,000 Wurtembergers. Fifteen navy lists have also been published.