The Turks have done yet another futile and disastrous thing
on the borders of Egypt. In a statement issued at Cairo last Saturday it was explained that the Turks had planned an attack on Tor, which is a quarantine station at the south-west corner of the Sinai Peninsula. Two hundred Turks and Arabs had encamped about five miles from Tor after travelling some two hundred miles from Nakhl. There was no need for the garrison of Tor to await the attack. A small detachment of British troops was conveyed by sea and landed on Friday week at a point in the Gulf of Suez in the rear of the enemy. The Turkish force was surprised and annihilated. More than one hundred prisoners were taken. Why the Turks thought it worth while to come all that way to attack Tor, which has no military importance, is a mystery. But then all their movements are quite beyond explanation.
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