EGYPT.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1916, Page 5

EGYPT.

OJEMAL PASHA INDEPENDENT. DEMANDS A GERMAN ADVANCE GUARD. Cairo, Dec. 31. All males in Syria between eighteen and slsty yean nave been called to the eelon. The Vali of Beirut ordered ten Syrian leaders to be hanged. Twenty-three others are awaiting execution. Djemal Pasha maintains an attitude of absolute independence, and refuses to take orders from his German colleagues. He refused to march against Egypt, declaring that he would not move until h* Was provided with an advance guard WMMting of 25,000 Germans, v fiNEMV'S HASTY RETREAT. SMALL BRITISH LOSSES. fORCE DISPERSES BEDOUINS. Received Jan. 1, 5.5 p.m. Cairo, Jan. 1. Details of the fighting on Christmas Day show that the enemy's losses were greater than at first reported. We occupied an enemy position at a camp westward of Mersamatu. The Senussi fled in a hasty and disordered retreat, losing four hundred killed and eightytwo prisoners. A considerable number of camels and sheep were captured, and a quantity of ammunition and stores was destroyed. We disabled an enemy gun. The retirement was so hurried that Garraf Pasha, the commander, left in his office his private papers. We had ten killed and four officers and forty-nine men wounded. Another column on the 80th dispersed Bedouins under Saved Harun, south-east of Mersamatu, and occupied the enemy's camp and water supply.