ATTACK ON EGYPT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 15 February 1915, Page 5

ATTACK ON EGYPT

RECENT CANAL ENGAGEMENT. . LONDON. Feb. 13. "The Times" Ismailia correspondent says that "when the .night fighting at Ismailia began, a torpedoer dashed up • and landed live men on the eastern bank, south of Touseoum. Tho party stumbled'] into a Turkish trench, but miraculously escaped- and xejoined the torpedoer, Which dashed to Ismailia under fire from both sides; .If., enfiladed the enemy,, .and destroyed pontoons. . .Twenty • oi tha 'cnemvi fcrofheld Canal atf.Toussoum and sniped the gunners! front the rear until Indian cavalry captured them. The Turkish artillery hit a couple of merchantmen •without causing any casualt'ics. The sniping continued after the repulse at Toussoum, a man being killed in one of the British battleship's tops. The Indians at the "outset found hundreds- of Turks in a hollow. The. .latter fire,d .after -.signifying their Thereupon, the- Indians with the Vayonet killed.or captured and routed them all. A British officer killed a Turkish officer with hie sword .in single combat. TURKISH FORCE. SURPRISED NEAR TOR. AND ANNIHILATED. LONDON, Feb. 14. A Cairo message states.that a detachment of troops landed near Tor and .crossed the hills.. They surprised and annihilated ». Turkish force of 200, of whom 100 were taken prisoners, including a Turkish., major. . Twenty camels were captured. . One Ghurka was killed and one wounded. TURKS ABANDONING THEIR PLANS. LONDON,. Dec. 12. . Turkish- and Arab refugees'. at: Suez assert that Djemal Pasha, Commander-in-Chief of the Turkish army tliat is to invade .Egypt, broke his leg in a motor accident, at Beersheba, and surrendered the command to General von Bach. The Rome "Tribuna" states that the Turks are abandoning their plans for fresh attacks. They appear to have exhausted their supplies of provisions, water, and ammunition.