On The Friday Night The Turkish Armies Were Thus In
a hopeless position. Our infantry, pivoting on theirleft, advanced last Saturday north-eastward through the rugged Samaritan hills towards Samaria and Shechem, driving the Turks......
General Allenby Began On The Wednesday Night By Attacking...
Turkish left, strongly posted in the wild hills round Shiloh, west of the Jordan. Our infantry made slow but steady progress, and gained command of all but one of the roads......
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Meanwhile The Cavalry, Pushing Through The Gap Near The Sea
where Cceur de Lion's Western knights defeated Saladin in Septem- ber, 1191, rode hard for the north, accompanied by armoured cars. By midday they had forced their way through......
We Must Not Forget, In Considering The Prospects Opened To
us by this victory, that the further north we go the more Allies we shall find on the way. Deraa is the station for the Hauran, inhabited by our old friends the Druses, some of......
Invaluable Aid Was Given Us Once More By The Arab
forces of the King of the Hedjaz, which swooped upon Deraa, in the desert east of the Lake of Galilee, and destroyed the railways radiating from that junction to Damascus,......
General Allenby Sent Troops Across The Jordan On Sunday....
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......
News Of The Week
• ENERAL ALLENBY'S offensive in Palestine will go down to history as one of the most brilliant and successful operations of modern warfare. We may express its effect in terms of......
