PALESTINE.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 October 1918, Page 1

PALESTINE.

(.I’KP . l'ltCBS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.] At fST ITALIAN ;S UCC’ESS. LONDON, September 20. The Australian cavalry have forced f the Upper Jordan, the enemy have been 1' driven from their positions. 1. South-east, of the Lake of Tiberias the T British have joined hands with the ' Arabs. p i OPERATIONS DETAILED, i LONDON, September 29. British official report from Palestine ) states: Throughout Saturday the enc- ; my resisted the British in the Lake of i Tiberias area. They held to crossings _ of the Upper Jordan at .)isbonatyakud, i and postions about Irbid and Erros ? inete, .astride the roads to Mezcrib and , Dora a. I A brigade of the Australian Light * Horse at'evening forced a passage to , Hie south of .Tisrbenatyakud. On tile morning of Saturday the cno- . my were driven out of some positions , on the Upper Jordan, the British crossing to the left bank and undertaking the t repairing of a bridge, t' Cavalry overcame the resistance of * Turks at Irbid and Erremote on Saturi day morning and drove the enemy i. northwards through Mezoreb, junction- * ing themselves with Hussion’s Arabs at * Deraa. F The Arabs captured the station of ■; Ezrachnngale, and entered Daraa and i Silicic Hsaad, 16] miles north-west of i Deraa, taking 1700 prisoners, it- The. British and Arabs are now ap- - proaeliing Meyereb. ? In the southern area, 6,700 Turks and > ; 28 guns had been captured by Friday .night. These were gained in the operation eastward of the Jordan when contacting with the enemy about El * Kastal (fourteen miles southward of , Amman) which lead to the Turks rer treating from Amman. v Up to Friday evening'a total of 60,000 [ prisoners and three hundred and thir-ty-five guns had'been taken and counted.