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Show BRITISH DEFEAT. THE TURKS EAST OF SUEZ CANAL LONDON. Sept. IS. 12:n5 p. m. Defeat 6f the Turks in a minor engagement on the Sinai peninsula, sixty-five miles east of the Suez canal, was announced officially offi-cially today as follows: A mobile column composed of An-zac An-zac mounted troops and a camel -corps with some artillery left Blr-el-Abd on September U, with a view to carrying out reconnaissance of enemy troops west of El-Arish. The column reached an enemy position at Bir-el-Mazar, sixty-five miles from the canal, a t dawn Sunday. A sharp engagement followed. In which our troops penetrated pene-trated the enemy trenches at several points and inflicted considerable casualties cas-ualties while our artillery heavily shelled the enemy camp. The at tack appears to have been a surprise to the Turks and our aircraft air-craft saw and fired on several parties par-ties of them, among whom were German Ger-man officers, riding rapidly hack to K1-Arish. We took some prisoners. Our casualties were slight. |