The enemy's assertion that the Turks withdrew quietly from the
neighbourhood of Jerusalem has, of course, proved to be untrue. The Turks had their guns on Olivet, and defended all the ridges round the city with the utmost vigour. The Turkish positions were taken by assault on the 8th, when General Allenby's troops moved simultaneously on the north, west, and south of Jerusalem. Since then he has advanced his left centre in the plain north-east of Ludd or Lydda, and has also pushed forward in the hills to the north-east and east of Jerusalem. The Turkish prisoners taken op to the 13th numbered 562 officers and 11,479 men. Our airmen have had a curious experience in bombing the Turkish motor-boats at the mouth of the Jordan. Descending into the deep chasm of the Jordan where it flows into the Dead Sea, they were actually four hundred feet below the level of the sea. The Dead Sea is thirteen hundred feet below the Mediterranean.
