THE CHRISTMAS DAY FIGHT IN EGYPT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 19, 22 January 1916, Page 5

THE CHRISTMAS DAY FIGHT IN EGYPT.

BAYONtT. JCHARGE UNDER . A FUSILLADE. : HEW -ZEALANDERS .-SOTrER .. SEVENTY CASUALTIES; '-. *!' . '' , LONDON, January 21. ' - .? h ? iejvspapers'. publish Eoas'xccpunt of. the .Christmas Cay .fighting at Mersa Matruh, Egypt, .where the Sikhs and New Zealanders charged : down across,a donga underline enemy's fusillade. The Sikhs showed great courage, and won the New Zealanders' admira- ; tion.' Finally tiie/"en«my was ejected at the point of. the bayonet The"New Zealand casualties;were"7o. ■■' "' " ;.';. ■.-. . _ •; ; . .' . The/fight at MersaMatruh; which is on the fringe of the Tripolitan desert, in Western Egjjrpt, was against the Senussi, a Moslem brotherhood in Northern Africa of fanatical and austere docttines. iv The founder of the EL Senuesi, to the.British,.,but subsequent infliC-;, entice.have 'been exerted -to fan a growing hostility'- caused through efforts: to"" check their increasing-tendency to predatory and. sdave-rading habits. - . . INTRIGUES TO INCITE SENUSSI TO A JEHAD. DOCUMENTS FOUND IN • SALONIKA CONSULATES. ' ■' (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) ; ' -„ ; LONDON, January 21. -, The Salonika-correspondent of the London "Times" statea.that undeniable . evidence was. found, in :the- enemy Consulates searched at Salonika that the enemy was inciting the Senussi to a holy. wa.r against non-German Christendom. ' The. documents w.ere in a sealed parcel addressed to the Austrian military, attache- ■ ....■ ". : „■_■■ ■•■;- .■•.,•.: ■„■[■•■■' ■.-.■■.....::■ , ': ■'._