BRITISH SUCCESS IN PALESTINE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 227, 13 June 1918, Page 5

BRITISH SUCCESS IN PALESTINE

A BRILLIANT OPERATION

MILE ADVANCE Off SEVEN-

MILE FRONT

(Rec. June 12, 7.1)0 p.m.)

lt - ... . ' . London, Juno 11. Writing from British Headquarters in Palestine on Juno 10, Jfr. \V. T. liassey reports:: lwo highly suaeossful operations materially improved our positions on tlio coastal sector at the end of May by which tho line was advanced a mile on seven miles of front. We hold nil the ground gained. The statement in a highly-coloured Turkish communique lliat the enemy retook the hills by an immediate counter-attack is quite 'inaccurate, llie fact beinj Hint several coun-ter-attacks were completely repulsed with heavy loss. About two miles north of Arsuf the enemy still hud the advantage of observation over our new lines' irom two knolls. .It was decided to eject them from these elevated positions on the I'i'ige, and on Saturday at daybreak the Scottish troops, moving up the const, got behind the Turkish trenches and rolled up the line, while the Indians, advancing behind our barrage, captured the high ground. All the Turks were accounted for, and one hundred prisoners were taken. The operation was perfectly carried out, the two columns co-operating with line precision."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn,