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BRITISH ADVANCE IN MESOPOTAMIA.
APPROACHING, HIT.
LONDON, Fab. 23. An official message from Mesopotamia
states:
Our troops on the Euphrates occupied Khanaburayal on Wednesday.
Patrols are within ten miles of Hit. The resistance was slight. We took 30 prisoners.
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RUSSIA.
LONDON, Feb. 25,
A German official message atates We occupied Pernan where IT Eathonian battalion placed itself undar German command.
Wa occupied Borpat, taking 3,000, prisoners and capturing hundreds of fautomobiles. '
We reached Jitoman
A flying detachment, which occupied Dorpat, covered 130 miles in £ve and half days
The whole staff of the Russian special army at Rovno fell into our handa
THE NEW OFFENSIVE IN The Commander in Chief Bod.
PALESTINE.
LONDON, Feb. 25.
Renter's Correspondant with the British Army in Palestine, telegraphing.
on February 22, states that the full in
We have established contact with the Ukranian troops at Jetomir.
-GERMANS OCCUPY REVAL
LONDON, Feb. 35
A German official message states-
the operations since the new year, duaWe occupied Reval after a battle and
to the cold and wet weather, and the also Pleskau, to the south of Lake necessity of strengthening the lengthen. Pripus.
ed lines of communication has now beari
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been completely successful, gialding important strategie penalta..
The fighting after Christmas left our troops in possession of important heights to the east of Jerusalem, dominating the road to Jericho.. The Turks had atill some forces to the west of Jericho And if they had been, auficiently strang and energetic they might have worked round between Bethlehem and the Dead Sea and even menaced the road to
Hebron.
RENEWAL OF THE ARMISTICE. REQUESTED.
PETROGRAD, Feb. 22. General Krylenko has telegraphed the German General Staff requesting the renewal of the armistice in view of Bassis's acceptance of the peace terms FRENCH VIEWS OF THE GERMAN PEACE
The Frass regards the Germon
PAR, Feb. 20.
terms to Buds humiliating and Draconian.
Most of the region between Jerusalem and Jericho is barren, broken sad vary. The celsior says that history
hilly within seven miles of the
Jordan, where it has an apparently level offers no example of more complete
surface which is, however, furrowed with innumerable steep and narrow
gorges.
The Turks beld the create'six miles
or more servile compliance than the Bolsheviks agreeing to renounce their own propagands.
fi
The Echo de Paris states Japane
to the east of Jerusalem, on either side hour is approaching. She alone cam
of the road. Their defences were mostly check the German penetration. She
of stone breastworks with, occasionally, tis énxious to intervene and is only shallow trenches plentifully supplied awaiting the signal.
with machine gunk-
It was decided to drive the Turks bayond the Jordan in order to make our right flank absolutely secure.
THE GENERAL EFFECT OF THE PEACE TERMS.
LONDON, Fali 25.. The first British move, on February 14,
While many of the details of the encountered no serious opposition and the line was advanced about 100 yards Russo-German terme are not yet clear, On the morning of February 19, the the general effect is that Finland, Welsh troops and the Londoners Estonia, Poland, Couriano, Lithuania attacked along a broad front, respectively and Ukraine are at Germanys disposal ts the north and south of the Jericho Newspaper comment chiefy and Bond, while the Australian Light Horse phasises the moral that against, Fros ade a wide furning movement from sianiam, non-resistance is not only the south. The enemy hotly contested utterly futile but in the Inst degre the advance, clinging tenaciously to his risinons
positions. The British, hotwithstanding The Hanchester Guardian states [C the difficult ground and bad weather, does not think the terms could be swept forward and carried the whole of harder and is of the opinion that the their objectives. The advance was reason Germany did not ask for the resumed on February 20 and the British, fect to be handed over was that she fighting with irresistible valour, die feared its destruction, and hopes to lodged the enemy from a series of secure it otherwise. crests and ledges amid drenching rain, The Heatminder Garelle points ou and by the end of the day had advanced the gulf between alhed Labour and the 6,000 yards on a ten-mile front The Prussian, war me and says that the cavalry had a particularly difficult task. German terms to Russia are unparaleled They could only move in ringle file in for callousness and cynicism. some places. Yesterday, the enemy The Four's frsékly admits that- evacuated Jericho which we entered when the Bolsheviks broke up the to-day
army they greatly, helped German forporialiver
The Turkish defast not merely secures access to the Jordan.and the Dead Sea but valuably quiata the, operations of the King of the Hedjaz, who is advancing to the north.
GERMAN, BOCIALISTS JAY DEBERTIONS ARE INCREASING.
AMSTERDAM, Fob.: 25. The Reichstag Socialiste hare profes ted against tug. lingup strikers
for the arm
the saldier
and
this
that
beaten, il ted
THE EMBASSIES IN PETROGRAD)
LONDON Feb 25.1 The Allied members of their Embar mes are leaving Petrogradi
GAL "BOLAHETIK CLAIM.
PETROGRAD, Feb. 27. The Bolsheviks claim that the Soviet? forces have capturei Kostola
OOR HARVEST IN URBAINE
ZORIO
the Interior, stated- there was
erest hope that
ouh bermit of