RUMOURS FROM EGYPT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144663, 24 April 1915, Page 4

RUMOURS FROM EGYPT.

I Every scrap of news Srom Egypt is of interest, of course, to New /ealand- , ,crt., but. just at present there, is more rumour than fact (says the Lyttelton. Times). From Now Zealanders’ loiters it is evident that at the cud of February the troops were under the impression that they, would soon be leaving the land of the i’haroahs, and Australian files received last week show that tho' Australian troops, too, had the idea that they-wore about to ho called for duty elsewhere: The Sydney Sun; for ' instance, - prints 'a letter from 'one of tho Victorians in Egypt in which tho writer says that the troops had just re-' ecivcd word lliat they would.bo leaving Egypt “in a very short time.’’ , “Our departure this lime is ‘dinkmn,’ and no rumour,” ho writes. "At present no one knows our next destination, but it is believbd' that wo will-go to Marseilles, probably to a concentration camp, though I have been told that wo go'from Marseilles to Paris and then to Amiens, which latter plaeo will he onr base.” This nolo is quoted here chiefly because it suggests the source of a story that has been in circulation lately to tho effect that tho New Zealanders' are non in the south of France. It may bo true that the colonials arc to bo used in France, but seeing that a considerable force will bo needed for the operations against Turkov it would not appear to bn economical to send troops from Egypt to France and replace thorn by troops from Franco and Great Britain. The established facts aro thus that at the end of February tho Australians and New Zealanders expected shortly to bo leaving Egypt, but that they had no definite knowledge of their destination.