FURTHER FIGHTING.
ENEMY REPULSED IN TWO X POSITIONS.
282 TAKEN AS PRISONERS
A FEW BRITISH CASUALTIES,
(Received February 5, 1.10 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 4. Turkish rafts attempted to cross the Suez Canal at Toussoun on Wednesday and were repulsed with heavy loss. Two hundred and eighty-two were taken as prisoners.
Two British officers and thirteen men were killed and fifty-eight wounded. The enemy were repulsed at El Kantara, twenty-one being 'killed and many wounded.
[El Kantara is at the southern end of the Suez Oanal, and is on the caravan route from the East to Cairo.]
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13601, 5 February 1915, Page 3
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