1 JANUARY 1916, Page 10

The Senussi have renewed -their attacks on the .Egyptian frontier.

It swill be remembered that our advancedlposta were withdrawn lately to Mersa •Matru, which is,the western terminus of -the Khedivial- railway from. Alexandria. On Christmas Day about . three thousand Arabs attacked this point. They -were repulaed• by a New Zealand -battalion and a body of Sikhs, who .drove them back some distance and: killed about Awe hundred. The British casualties were -slight. -Ships of war took part * the action. Can one imagine a more -romantic episode—a . more vivid proof of the reality of our Imperial links—than that. New Zealanders should have come across the -world to fight on the ground which Alexander -traversed-when he meat up to Jupiter Ammon ?