Attack on Egypt

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 206, 8 February 1915, Page 5

Attack on Egypt

' HEAVY FIGHTING. HEAVY TURKISH LOSSES. PRAISE FOll AUSTRALIANS. Cairo, February o. The British captured three macliino guns, ninety camels laden with stores and ammunition and six hundred prisoners. The Turks abandoned four hundred dead. Their casualties are estimated at '2400. London, February 5. General Jlawvell cabled to Sir George Keid commending the services of the Australian Engineers under fire. TURKISH ARMY 110,000. HEAVY ARTILLEIiY LEFT BEHIND. WATER IX SCUXT SUPPLY. Times and Sydney Sun Services. | Received 7, 5.30 p.m. » London, February 6. | Italian papers state that the Turks inarching to Egypt number 00,000, together with 20,000 Bedouins. They found i*. necessary to leave their 30-centimetre j guns behind, taking only the 15-centi- | metre. The main body is at Jloyaharah. I Water has to be carried in tin recep- j tacles. It is insufficient in quantity, and almost undrinkable. j ; t A MILITARY RAILWAY. j | ACROSS THE DESERT. Received 7, 5.5 p.m. London, February G. The Morning Post's Alexandria correspondent says that considerable surprise was felt when 12,000 Turks readied the Canal, lacking commissariat and transport. It is conjectured that the main army may succeed in crossing the desert, since the Germans arc making tremendous efforts at building a railway to the frontier via Sebasties, Lvdda and Gaza. A thousand laborers are breaking up the rails of the Ilaifai-Damaseus and Jalfa-.Jerusalem railways for the new railway. A SIKH REGIMEXT AT CLOSE QUARTERS. Received 7, 3.30 p.m. Cairo, February G. It is understood that an Arab regiment attacked Tonssouin. The Sikh regiment withheld their fire, and allowed the enemy to come to close quarters, when they vigorously attacked, completely routing the enemy, who employed a heavy gun, with much expenditure of ammunition, but little result. HER ONLY SALVATIOX. Received 7, 5.5 p.m. j Bucharest, February 7. Abdul Hamid has advised tl e Young Turks to conclude pence, with the Kn•tente as the only means of preserving Turkey's independence. He suggests that the Allied Fleet be allowed to appear at j Constantinople. i i CAIRO A CIIAXGEI) CITY. j Times and Sydney Sun Services. i London, February 5. j A message from Cairo says that there ; is no Egyptian season tiiis year. There ! are few tourists and no processions of ! rich Americans, dances or race meetings, j and most of the hotels are closed, yet j the city i s animated enough and mili-' tarised. There was a time when lion- ( corns, and men, especially colonials, j gathered in the two principal Hotels at J all hours, but latterly there have been restrictions. The conduct of the Brit- \ ish and Australasian troops is admir- ' able. It wonders why there are no ■ British tea-rooms opened, if only to j benefit the Australasians, who are tea- < drinkers par excellence. j I