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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14287, 2 May 1917, Page 8

Among the car officers m front of the position during the long night was '?] Lieutenant William Griggs, the famous ''! jockey, who has just received the Mili-

tary Cross from the hands of Sir Archibald Murray. Griggs' friends on the tuif will be pleased to hear that more than two, years of active service huvo not affected his horseniaaiship, for last Saturday he took advantage of two days' leave by riding m great fot'm m the Cairo Derby* and adding the .principal race m Eigypt to his k'i!g list of tuff triumphs. We destfoyed the remaindei- of the camp, collected .^l'ms and anlmtuuthm which the.. Senussi could ill .afford to lose, and 'waited for the little column to report from Munasib. The commander was m wireless communication with the general. His guides had caused 'him . to go eighty miles out of his way, but when ho arrived opposite Munasib it , wasi found absolutely impossible to take • the. heavy armored cars down the -es- " carpment, and only by man-handling * were a- few light ' patrol car s got on the ; sandy flat. . Sayed Ahmed and his commander were never m the fight. They left Siwa when they heard of the arrival of ' the cars, and nothing was seen of them. * Five of the nine Turkish officers with the enemy were wounded, and fully. 200 ,* Senussi soldiers were killed or .wound- ': cd. At 9 a.m. on the sth our force en- ' tered Siwa, where a salute was fired, and tlie general received tho notables on tho steps of the market, or courthouse.

Siwa is iri the Egyptian desert, about 170 miles south' of the Gulf of Solium, which is on the border of Tripoli and Egypt- "----.-- -.»•■....•, ...... . .