EGYPT.
AiR RAID ON TURKS SEBELS ROUNDED UP. Lor f.oh, Nov. 13. An Egypt official message says:—A ton of high explosives was dropped in two successful air raids on Maghdaba and Bir Saba. A number of direct hits were secured and much damage done to the enemy's camp and store shed 3 at Maghdaba, A 1001b Comb directly hit an Aviatie as it was leaving the hangar at Birsaba, damaging thi hangar. We did much damage to the railway station and rolling stock. London, Nov. 13. An Egyptian official report states that 300 of the Egyptian army were dispatched to El Fassar in October for rounding up a band of rebels in the province of Darfur, headed by the ex-Sultat AU Dinar. The force reached Mulme on November 3 and encountered a few tribesmen, but little opposition, and captured a hundred rifles and three hundred camels It pursued the main body towards Sugai, and encountered it on Novembei 6. Ali Dinar was killed, and 200 prisoners taken, while many rifles, much ammunition, six thousand cattle, and other material were captured. There were no Egyptian casualties.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 November 1916, Page 5
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