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Show TURKISH DEFEAT. The general in command of the English Eng-lish forces east of the Suez canal seems to have won quite a decisive victory, if reports from London are to be taken at their face value. The surprising feature fea-ture of the affaii is that the Turks, with so small a force as 14,000 men, should attempt to' penetrate to tlte canal. Correspondents who have been in Egypt have told us of the hundreds of thousands of men the British have been maintaining and training in that quarter of the globe. Obviously all of these troops were not to be used for the canal's defence. There have been revolts re-volts of varying power on the western border of Egypt and in southern Egypt, and the country lias been the' military depot for troops passing back and forth between tho English possessions and the English fighting , lines. So numerous were the military units in Egypt that eminent Englishmen were heard to protest pro-test against immobilizing whole armies here while British forces in France were unable to make headway against the foe. It may be that the Turks and' Teutons got wind of a great exodus of British troops from Egypt, and planned to hurl a small army against some one point in the hope, of breaking through. Only a small front on the English line was engaged. en-gaged. The 14.0CI0 Turks, assisted by a few Germans, assailed the lines nearest near-est the Mediterranean and tried to penetrate pene-trate them. They appear to have met with a serious reverse, for more than 3000 of them were captured aud the remnant of the army was pursued for eighteen miles. Thus ends the second offensive against the canal, in a disaster even more crushing crush-ing than the first. Early in the war the Turks reached the canal in a series of battles, and almost succeeded in crossing it, .but were defeated and dispersed by British, troops and by warships stationed in the canal. |