IN EGYPT

Grey River Argus, 30 December 1915, Page 3

IN EGYPT

FIGIITING IN THE SENUSSI . COUNTRY. NEW ZEALANDERS ENGAGED ENEMY' COMPLETELY ROUTED. CAIRO, December ~7Official. — The New Zeala oilers and Sikhs successfully engaged *he Sen>ussi on the western frontier •" t rfc'ypt on Cliristmas Day, with ff\v -.aVialties. . . ' ■ • "■ LONDON, December 2?, ' Only the bare fact that the New Zealariders*. have conducted operations in the Senussi country have reached London. ' • A Turkish communique claims that the Senussi in Egypt continue to successfully attack the English in the Sista region, which was almost completely cleared of the enemy. During an attack on Matruh, 240' miles cast of Sollum Bay, -some 300 English were killed. The remainder, Mohammedans, captured two guns on motor cars • and much munitions. The" War^ Office yesterday issued a denial of the Turkish statement.. They say that there was no fighting with the Arabs on the western frontier between the 14th and 24th, but we located and attacked the principal Arab force eight, miles from Matruh. on Christmas Day aiid dispersed, them with' trifling British losses., CAIRO, December 28. An official statement this morning says that a TJritisbrforce from Matruh located the Senussi a little westward of jebelmedwa, where the New Zealand Battalion and Sikhs immediately attacked them and were completely successful, the enemy being driven westward towards ■ Wademykl. Our casualties were slight. PARIS, December 28. A communique states: A cruiser, when exploring Sollum Bay, destroyed a Turkish . battery and a trawler, a ud [attacked two large enemy submarines, which fled after being fired at for two hours. The Senussi are a semi-religious, semi-political fraternity, which exercise- considerable in Tunis, Algeria : and Morocco, and are even still more, powerful in Tripoli, especially on the eastern border adjoining Egypt, where the fighting reported in the above cable occurred.