ANZACS' SPLENDID MARCH.
SINAI NOW CLEAR OF ENEMY. -Reuter's v Telegram.) . (Received January 12, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, January' 11. Ihe British mounted force left El Arish on the Bth, and marched thirty miles in. twelve hours, and attacked the Turkish position covering Rafa at dawn on the 9th. The enemy numbered approximately 2300. All were killed or prisonered including a few Germans. ' Our casualties were light. Sinai i& now clear of the -enemy. A Turkish force coming to the relief of Rafa. in the afternoon was engaged and obliged to withdraw.
The High Commissioner reports :
LONDON, January 11, 11.30 a.m. An Egyptian official message spates: The Anzao Monuteds captured a strong enemy position- at Rafa on Tuesday, consisting of six lines of entrench-mein-s .and six main redoubts. . The fighting lasted ten hours. Afterwards a .Turkish relief force advancing at El Shalal was engaged and destroyed, 1600 prisoners being taken. Six hundred were killed, and the bounded remain in our hands, also four mountain guns. * ■ .7 .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14195, 12 January 1917, Page 3
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165ANZACS' SPLENDID MARCH. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14195, 12 January 1917, Page 3
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