PALESTINE.
an armistice EXPLAINED. (Received This Day at 9.50. a.m.) t- LONDON, April 28.
The War Office states a Turkish official report of the 19th stated an English request! for a two hours | armistice 'was being arranged to give tho English an'opportunity to bury a large number of their dead. This statement gives an incorrect impression of heavy 'British losses. The facts were that after stubborn fighting, the enemy losing heavily, an arrangement, not- in the nature of an armistice, was made between a German officer and the British Red Cross for the collection of tho wounded, the enemy having previously fired on. our paities, causing a mutual abandonment of the collection of the pounded and dead. ARABIAN TROOPS’ WORK. (Received This 9»v nt 9.50. a.m \ LONDON, April 28.
A Palestine Hedjnz official: —Troops of King Hadjaz during the week ended 24th occupied fifty-three miles of the Hedjaz railway', southward- of Mann.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1918, Page 3
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