ATTACK ON THE CANAL

North Otago Times, Volume CIII, Issue 13652, 21 August 1916, Page 2

ATTACK ON THE CANAL

ENEMY FORCES ENGAGED. 1 . '1 LAHGE CAPTURES REPORTED. ' (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) Received August 19,7,5 p.m. LONDON, August 19. The Wiir Office aunoiiiici's iu eoimeclion with the battle.of Katia. thai the enemy numbered some eighteen tliousaiul, of which forty-nine officers ami ;iS7I lmui Iravc been tiikcii prisoner iiml 1251 lulled 'and IUOO woundeil. The ■ following material has been brought in; A Krnpp 75 inilllmctres battery of four guns, t'uur thousand rounds. 2300 rifles, it million cartridges, nine German machine guns, with thirty boxes of bells of animuiiilioii, quantities of.- wire, clothing, swords, entrenching tools, live hundred camels, a hundred horses mules. The Turks, in retreating, burned a quantity of stores at Hirclubd and abandoned two lield liospilas.