Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-02-06 | Page 3 | Turks Lose Many Men in Battle at Suez Canal

TURKS LOSE MANY MEN IN BATTLE AT SUEZ CANAL CIRO, Fgvpt, Feb. 5, via London. 2:20 p m There was no engagement of any Importance yesterday (Thursday) In the viclnltv of the Suez canal. There has been no fighting since the action of February 3 when the Turks advanced on the posts at Toussoum (thirty-five miles north of Suez), but were later in the day forced to retire. , t ,, Two hundred additional prisoners fell Into the British hands, as did three machine ma-chine guns and ninety camels loaded with slores and ammunition. Dunns the tight- I inc in the vicinity of Toussoum the' Turks left behind them -100 men in killed and a total of f,00 prisoners. Judging from the reports the total casualties of the Turks number at least 2400 men, exclusive ex-clusive of prisoners. The body of a German Ger-man officer has been found among the Turkish dead. The British casualties were given originally orig-inally as two officers and thirteen men killed and fifty-eight men wounded. Subsequent Sub-sequent reports hate net increased these lists.