EGYPT
TURKISH ADVANCE ON" THE CANAL. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, July 31. The Daily Telegraph's correspondent in Egypt -reports tharb the Turkish, advance to the Soez -Canal along the caravan route from El Arish to Kantara has reached a ridge eight miles from Romani, and three miles from' (the edge of the Katja oasis. The enemy are estimated at 12,000. They are feeling their way cautiously on a ten-mile front by night marches, hiding in the day time in palmi groves and shallow holes covered with pa>lm leaves ito escape aerial observation.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 2 August 1916, Page 5
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