WAR NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 185, 15 January 1915, Page 3

WAR NOTES.

AWAITING Tllli fNKMY. Jiialcrn Egypt. November 2i). "Dv you think they will come on: ' is a question which one hears most ufte.i from British officers in this region, especially when lie is known to have lately left Constantinople. Though not so waterless as is usually believed, the h'inai Peninsula oilers few lines for westv ard ad ranee which an army can follov without iveiituaily finding toe r'U'.-e vater 0.11 its front, and too little in its rear The northern road which lias Imi followed bv all previou'; übieli hare attacked Knx ',. iimi ve

i ast, is by no means ideal for artillery, sea power prevents the, use of Akaba. as an advanced base, and (lie BirsabaKossaima route, is supposed to be none too well supplied with water in the lalei stages. The Irregulars, mostly Sawarka Terabin and Iloweltat licduin, who were engaged with the Bikanirs on November .<(>, seem, after sending a patrol within a short distance of tile Canal, to have evacuated Katia and retired towards El Avish.

Captain ('hope, whose men aeeoiinteil for !,t least, sixty of the onemv. in the recent fiifht nt r.ir'e! Ali.l. had several narrow (-capes. A bullet shivered his sword bill and another just missed bis ramera. Luckily, for bis little force, the enemy hnnpr back every time the Dikanirs ni-momiled to lire during the retirement. One of our wounded, a marksman, accounted for five of the T.eduin. »nothc:- man. who wa- at. !ii--l iiiissinfi-. and was picked up wounded, reported ("ml the enemy, after strippirn; bin! found he was a. Moslem and contented themselves with e,v.shin P ; bis neck, apparently with a Want sword, in■flief.iiu' a painful but not a dangerous voimd. The Turks did no,': seem to have particiratcd in the encounter.—London Times 'corresi undent.