EGYPT.
MORE FIGHTING. HEAVY CASUALTIES. London, Jan. 26. Reutcr's Cairo correspondent states: We drove back 450 (?) Western Arabs on the 23rd for three miles. Our casualties were 25 killed and 274 wounded, the enemy's 150 killed and 600 wounded. A HOT SKIRMISH. DOiUNKHT TROOPS ENGAGED. '■-' Received Jan, 27,10.30 p.nf. London, Jan. 27. The War Office has announced that General Wallace's force of British, Indian and Dominion troops advanced in two columns against the Senussi on Jan. 23. The enemy attempted to surround them, and an action commenced at ten o'clock. The enemy at mid-day had been driven back to their camp and then retreated rapidly westward. We occupied the camp and burned 80 tents and the stores. The enemy numbered 3500, with three guns and four machine-guns. Ten Brit,Jßher and Dominionites, and eighteen Indians' were killed and 274 men were wounded. One hundred and fifty of the enemy were killed and 500 wounded.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 January 1916, Page 5
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