THE SOLLUM SKIRMISH.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 March 1916, Page 5

THE SOLLUM SKIRMISH.

„ pISPERSAI OP THE SENUSSI. ARMORED MOTOR-CARS AT WORK. 3i; Receive* March 19,11.5 p.*. -.*;. London, March 19. Tie Press Bureau gives a British account of the fight at at Solium on March 14th. Armored cars, under the Duke.of Westminster, played a very dashing part in the action. An.aeroplane reconnaisance in the morning showed that the enemy's camp at Birwar was empty, and orders were immediately given to push forward with reasonable boldness. The cars found bad going for eight miles till they reached the Derna Road, ■where they increased speed .to forty miles an hour. They passed one hundred armed Bedouins, fleeing westward, but ignored them, and then sighted the main camp, twenty-five miles west of Solium. As the cars approached the enemy the latter opened with one gun and two machine-guns, which were smartly handled, but the teams were shot down from four hundred yards. Then the cars dashed into the camp and the enemy scattered broadcast. The cars pursued them, but abandoned the chase after going ten miles, fearing the petrol would give out, but they gathered in all the enemy artillery and rescued ninety members of crews who had been shipwrecked on the coast of Cyrenaica and taken prisoner fcy the Senussi. Thus a very skilful little campaign was successfully concluded.