ATTACK ON SUEZ CANAL
INTERESTING CAPTURES. (Received Feb. 1, 1:35 p.m. LONDON/ Feb. 10. The "Evening News"..Cairo correspondent states that two iron boats were captured • 011 the Suez Canal. They; , hold forty men, and are elaborately finishedThey ,can be used as a boat-or a pontoon. They have special silent oars, with- meta_i blaides. ' They were used as wa,ter' reservoirs on the march across '-the desert. A number of similar boats were-found- on , the Canal banks, riddled with bullets.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 12 February 1915, Page 2
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78ATTACK ON SUEZ CANAL Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 12 February 1915, Page 2
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