IN PALESTINE
GREAT CAPTURES OF PRISONERS AND MUNITIONS AN ARDUOUS . CAMPAIGN London, April 1. Mr. W. T. Massey, writing from Palestine Headquarters on Sunday, states: —"13y a dashing raid, the Anzac mounted troops and the Imperial Camel Corps blew up a portion of the Hejaz railway north and south of Amman, alter the infantry had taken the town ' of Essalt, 26 miles east of the Jordan. The infantry and ciivalrj in these operations captured over 700 prisoners, many of them Germans, foar guns, a number of machine-guns and much ammunition When the Jordan was bridged the number of troops put across so surprised tho enemy that ho did not put up mutj fight before Essalt, but strongly reinforced Amman, and fought stoutly behind trenches. 'Iho cavalry and Camel Corps made a great holding attack on Amman, shelling the station with made-rn trains in the sidings, which the airmen also bombed, causing much destriiction Simultaneously the Anzac engineers, moving on the other llank, blew up two arch-bridges north of the town and destroyed several culverts to the south. They, completely ruined a five-mile section of the line. "In the march from the; Jordan Valley cavalry wore on either flank of tho infantry, who used the road to Essalt. Tho Anzacs went over mountains so steep that there were only goat and j sheep tracks nearly all the way. The troopers had to dismount and pull their horses for miles behind them, "ney h»edc-J not the barriers Nature erected iior the hardships entailed by country in which . transport must bo precarious and scanty. Towards the end of tho journey the country was so terribly rough that some Anzacs had to leave their hones three miles behind them. Campaigning in this wild, hilly country is a terribly arduous Ijusiness. The accomplishment of the raid on the railway was a noteworthy military feat., The weather was very bad and the Jordan rose eight feet in one day. Ilaiu.and mist in the hills added enormously to the difficulties."— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Asstu
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 166, 3 April 1918, Page 6
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