The Archive · 1916

PRISONERS RECAPTURED FROM SENUSIS

DASH BY ARMOURED MOTORS

London, March 24.

In view of the satisfactory mili. tary position in Egypt resulting from the Turkish failure on the western frontier, a reorganization of the forces in Egypt has been effected and General A. Murray has assumed the sole command in egypt.

General Sir John Maxwell; _his predecessor, has started for Eng-The rescue of the held by the Senussi was Nine armoured motor cars and 26 others, with ten motor ambulances, left Sollum at 3 o'clock in the morning on the 17th for Sirhankim, 70 miles distant, where the prieoners were reported to be, but the distance travelled by the cars was 121 miles,

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