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General Allenby in Palestine resumed his advance on Friday week,

pushing forward his left and his right flanks. Our troops on the coast, supported by warships, crossed the Nahr-el-Auja near its mouth and advanced four miles by last Saturday. They had thus turned the enemy's positions along the river, and the Turks further eastward were speedily compelled to retreat northwards up the railway beyond Rantieh. On the right flank, east of Jeru- salem, our men took a hill two miles north-cast of Bethany, and are now within eight of the Jordan ravine and the Dead Sea. The Hedjaz Arabs, operating in the desert, arc reparted to have captured a Turkish troop train on the railway to Medina-

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