TREMENDOUS EFFORTS TO CROSS DESERT.
GERMANS BUILDING EAILWAY
LONDON, Saturday
The Morning Post's Alexandria correspondent says there was considerable surprise when 12,000 Turks, reached the canal, lacking a commissariat transport. . \, , It is conjectured that the main army may succeed m crossing the desert, s : rco the Germans arc making tremendous efforts at building a railway to the frontier, via Sebaste, Sam -via, Xyckla and Gaza. ' A thousand labourers are breaking up the rails of the Haifai, Damascus, Jaffa and Jerusalem railways, for the new railway.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14206, 8 February 1915, Page 5
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