CAMPAIGN IN SYRIA
NEWSPAPER DISCUSSION ' (Kcc. January 15, 5.5 p.m.) London, January 14. Tho newspapers are discussing tho possibilities of an advance on Palestine. Tho "Manchester Guardian" expert says another quick march would tiring the Anzacs to Zazes, the key to the coast road, hut the country abounds in good defensive positions, with a railway inland. If tho campaign in Syria, continues it will be necessary to cut the railways at Alesandretta. Mr. Lovat Fraser, writing in the "Mail," says tho splendid exploits of the Anzacs and Territorials were valuablo because of worrying tho Turks, but they had neither the time nor the strength for vast adventures in Asia. He believes Sir Archibald Murray (Commauder-in-Chief in Egypt) will at some timo take Jerusalem, but the dreams of a united sweep through Asia Minor and North of Arabia were mere moonshine. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. TURKISH VESSELS SUNK Petrograd, January 14. A Russian squadron on the , 6tli inst. raided tho Anatolian coast and sank forty Turkish sailing vessels laden with provisions for Constantinople.—Aus.N.Z. Coble Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2973, 16 January 1917, Page 5
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173CAMPAIGN IN SYRIA Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2973, 16 January 1917, Page 5
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