MENACE AGAINST EGYPT.

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 1, 3 January 1916, Page 5

MENACE AGAINST EGYPT.

CHRISTMAS DAY BATTLE

SENUSSI FLEE IN DISORDERED

ITETRmT

FORCE OF BEDOUINS DTS-

PERSED

(Received Jan. 2. 5.5 p.m.) •CAIRO, Jan. 1. 1 Details of the fighting on -Christmas Bay ■■"show '-that the - .enemy's, losses were, greater than at first■; reported,,. We occupied the enemy's position and camp westward1 of Mersamutu. The Senussi fled in hasty and disordered retreat, losing 400 killed and 82 pi'isonersl A' considerable number of camels and sheep were captured, and a quantity of ammunition and; stores were destroyed. We disabled the enemy's guns. The retirement was so hurried that |G-araaf Pasha, the commander, left in his office his private papers. We had ten killed nnd four •officers and 49 men wounded.

' ;\noth«jr eplumn-vion;i^he: SStlu <Ks-^ po.rsed the Bedouins ilnder Sayed Harun south-«asfc of Mersamutu. ¥c occupied the enemy's camp and water supply. [Writing, under da,te Npyembcr 25th from Egypt QuartCTmaster-Ser-gcant A. M. Thomson, w'ho ,left with tho Seventh Reinforcements, writes as follows: "I would not he stirprised if there is a- rising' hv tliis i very soon, and the authorities are taking-; strontr precautionary;- mea*nres. The Serond Battalion of the Trents (inoluding1 all the Blenheim lads) 'haw set'.'/jyt.for some part of. the country -'XTvipqli, I believe) to, quell what' promises to he a disturbance."] ' . .