3 NOVEMBER 1917, Page 14

General Allenby, of whose army in Palestine we have heard

little for menthe past, has now dealt the Turks a sharp blow. On Wednesday, after a night march, his troops attacked Beersheba, the old town, twenty-five miles south-east of Gaza, which is still as in Biblical times the outpost of Palestine on the edgy of the Sinai Desert. The infantry attacked the town from the west, while the cavalry, making a circuit, approached it on the east. The Turks fought well, but our men were too good for them and occupied Beersheba in the evening. The Beersheba garrison thus ceases to be a menace to General Allenby's right flank and to his communications.