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General Allenby sent troops across the Jordan on Sunday. They

occupied Es Salt in Gilead on Monday, and next day were approach- ing Amman, the chief Turkish base on the Hedjaz Railway east of the Dead Sea. The Arabs had cut the line north of Amman, and were also advancing up the railway from the south. The Turkish Fourth Army between Deraa and Amman was thus threatened from the west and south, and its only line of retreat through the desert to Damascus was by a railway which had been cut in several places. The Turkish troops south of Maan, at Medina, and in the distant provinces of Yemen and Asyr are now completely isolated and cannot escape. Medina, the last of the Moslem Holy Cities in Turkish hands, will soon be restored to Arab rule.

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