EGYPT

Taranaki Daily News, 15 August 1916, Page 5

EGYPT

PURSUIT OF THE TURKS. LARGE FA'FMY losses. Received Annusl 14, 7.10 p.m. London, August 1.1, I In- I iuu*« Cairn cm'P'ripondt tit states iiiat the l urks wen* pursued Jifty miles ea*t o[ the Canal The Au/.ais continue to pursue wifli the, greatest energy. The lurks li;i\c hlimvu -icat skill hi the leavguard actions. The ejn-.iiy losses an; between si\ and seven thousand, and pi taken total also lour guns . rtnd niueli equipment and .stores ANZACS PRESS THE ENEMY. MUCH MATERIAL DESTROYED. ARTI I.LERY UPSET TURKISH SCHEME. Times Service. Received August 14, 10.45 p.m. August 14.Mr. W. T. Massey writes: On Saturday, when the infantry broke of}' the action yuiii;; to tlie distance from the , ra ! hv!i y- whereon they depended for supplies, tile Anaacs division continued mussing the enemy. it was mainly owing to the Anzaes' extraordinarily well . • il »tain«d efforts that the Turks 'to-day abandoned their entrenched advanced _ at Birelaso, and turned anxious ' eye? towards El Arish, ninety miles east; . 0.. the Canal.' Thev destroyed a larse \in:?.nntv ot material, and were about . to bury rcore when an aeroplane reported tho movement. The men wore* digging beside then cameK apparently in- ■ tending to dump their .loads into the lioK but out artillery played havoc with tlit» scheme. The Turks fought for three days a desperate rearguard action, several fresh' battalions arriving in order to extricate the beaten division and their gun?. TURKS STILL EKTUEATINU. Wellington, August 14. " The High Commi.'siottei* reports under i ■ date London, August L> (-).ln p.m.): . ■ From ( Kgvpt, Ceneral Murray reports : that oiu cavalry \< still 'puivuing the Turkish rearguard", whiqh was driven back last evening to a position east of Birsulmauu.