PALESTINE.

Taihape Daily Times, 9 February 1918, Page 5

PALESTINE.

ALLIED AEROPLANES DO GOOD

WORK.

LONDON, Feb 7.

A Palestine official message reports as follows: Our aeroplanes on Sunday bombed enemy camps at Miskeh, and scored forty-seven hits. On Mon. day they bombed the same objectives, scoring thirty-seven direct hits. AH our machines returned. Arabs at Hedjez Touted eleven battalions of Turks eleven miles north of TafiTe on the 26th ultimo, killing 400 and capturing 300 men, two mountain guns, eighteen machine.guns, and 800 rifles. The Arabs on January 28th successfully attacked a post on the east shore of the Dead Sea Only forty Turks escaped, while sixty Turks , captured.