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And
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THE WAR.
THE GREAT TURKISH DISASTER IN PALESTINE.
(Reuler's Service to the China Mail)
A TURKISH ARMAGEDDON important bridge on the Jordan south.
of Lake TibegiLS.
BRILLIANT DASH OF GENERAL ALLENBY'S TROOPS.
THE STORY OF THE BRITISH SUCCESS.
■
The thint group, consisting chiefly of the Australian Light Horse, start- ed further in the rear and, after reueling the plain, descended on the Jenin Road. The Australians, who were newly ated with swords, in-
TURKISH ARMY ENTRAPPED BY stend of rifle bayonets, here had the
BRITISH TROOPS..
opportunity of uning the new weapons greatly to their satisfaction. They LONDON, Sept. 23. charger and sabred a Turkish batin- Beuter's Commspouder with the Eon in trenches where tiny took Palestino Army, telegraphing on thousand prisonetsi Saturday, suyu ----
To the smaller group, chiefly Aus- In and around the plain of Esdetritians, fell the honour of occupy on the Turks found their Aminoged-ing Nablus ninidst remarkable cheere dou. A large proportion of the from the Turkish wounded and the Turkish Army in Palestine was professed antisfaction of the civilian accounted for, The remainder is on population. "One good feature the other side of the Jordan with the liberated region is that there is little prospect of escape,
little distress. The people ate burry The Turks on this side of the ing back to their homes which de Jordan consisted of the Seventh and mostly undamaged. The fonds pour Eighth Armies, commanded respec Nablus bear terrible evidence of the. tively by Mustafa Kemal Pasha and effecey of the combing by our avia Dievad Pusha. These two Armies tors. The inhabitants state that the suffered heavy defeat. General Turks feared our planes more then":
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LATER.
with the astounding mobility of our troops, entrapped the Turks by a
Up to the present we have taken regular net of British troops. Tur-prisoner 25,000 combatants. The key has suffered a blow, from which Turks east of the Jordan that remin it will be difficuls for her to recover. to be dealt with are on the line Even could she find men it would the Hedjuz railway and compt be impossible to replace the material from six to eight thousand beyond *losses.**
und a ratiop strength of 80,000,
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The defout may have a fur-reich, ing effect on the generat situation in the Turkish Army, and, especially, en the political situation at Constan- tinople, where a strong enti-German propaganda has lately been ranking important progress.":"
· BRILLIANT CAVALRY WORK.
It was the Cavalry which enabled
MAGNIFICENT ACHIEVEMENT.
A CLOCK LIKE ADVANCE.
COMPLETE DEMORALISATION
OF TURKS.
LONDON, Sept. 23. Beuter's Correspondent at Pales
es to exploit the infantry success tine Headquarters, telegraphing ye to the uttermost.. General Allenby terday, says: command one of the finest forces The rapidity and completeness of cavalry in this war, which includes of General Allenby's magnificent born horsemen from Australia and achievement almost gives a mis- New Zealand And some of the best leading impression of its magnitude. Indian horse. Their mobility has The Turks were preparing for the f been the undoing of the enemy, conwinter, in their lines which were al verting his defeat into a rout. exceptional strength. At least thre
Three groups of cavalry, besides lines consisted of well-dug trenches Ja smuller force and some French strongly wired and redouble with hors participated in the operations. abundant urtillery and machine-guns, When the Cavalry reached Nazareth but the complete surprise, coupled they found that General Liman von with General Allenby's boldness and Sanders, the German Commander, mobility, completely demoralised the in-Chief, bad decaniped the previous Turks. All movements worked like evening with the papers. The troopea clock without a angle bitch any
where. at Nazareth offered some resistance.
The newly-red Indian troops which was quickly overcome. Two thousand prisoners were taken, in-bebaved splendidly and shoved luding 200 German technical troops stendiness, combined with the finest The tracks over the mountain into clash. The London troops,
which the Indians were brigaded on the plain of Esdraelon ure so bude that the Cavalry were compelled to the extreme left, lived up to their leave their horses and guns behind.plendid reputation and were the This group. comprised the Sherwood first to go through the Turkish lines
It was a tenurkable tent to renele Rangers and the Indian Imperiut
Tulkeram the same afternoon within Service Cavalry,
a minute of the predicted time.
willi
The second group was composed
Small parties of the enemy are of the yeomanry and the Indian
still wandering in the hilla but are Lancers, who followed more easterly course and penetrated the anxious to surrender Sixty Turist plain and the long narrow pass which entrenched in a village near Nablus surrendered on an intelligence officer should have proved an almost insur-
with a Sikh batman appearing mountable obstacle. The enemy opposition was, however, brushed
escaping
יין
The Turks in the Jordan valley-
aside Four hundred prisoners were appeared to be ignorant of the fate taken. Entering the plain, the of the Palestine Armies until count- Cavalry were exposed to rifts and cd troops to-day recobed Jared Damien crossing the stream and machine-gun fire.
The Turkish Battalion which was taking 800 prisoners.
The fugitives along the Jisred towards Nararata wad V charged by the Indian Lancers, who Danieh road to the Jordan Were killed and wounded a couple of very heavily bombed by our aims and numbere turned back, preferri hundred and took the remaining
to surrender than to tage the terri 400 prisoner
This body reached
orde Our advanced gusids occu Afuleh early in the morning, cap
Bred Seffuzion and Körkinna norifi ing immense booty and another prisoners. The booty included two made up trains, six locomotives, and 10 coaches,
The detachment
continued
advance, oceupying Besan the sam evening and bugging another thong man
and prisoners, and also occupied an