The serious preparations for the recent attempt to invade Egypt,
and the high hopes entertained by the Turks of its success, are described in an article by a neutral correspondent published in last Saturday's Timm. The writer, who was in Asia Minor during these preparations, states that this was no half-hearted attack,
but an expedition carefully planned and executed. The whole of the country from North to South was overrun with Germans and the Baghdad Railway was taxed to its utmost. He saw fifty great pontoons—solidly built boats of considerable beam, designed for crossing the Canal—each drawn by a wagon with eight oxen, being transported over the break in the line over the Amanus Mountains, and large quantities of galvanized iron were carried down from Constantinople and fashioned into sough-and-ready boats.
