PALESTINE.

Taihape Daily Times, 29 April 1918, Page 5

PALESTINE.

DISTORTED TURKISH STORY. i THE- ARABS' EFFORTS.' p- : '- ; ' ; ---LONDON, ■■• April-'-2S'.' i,: i The 'War Office states' ' the' : Turkish .official report, of-the nineteenth-stated the'English request that a : two hours'' armistice be ari'a'nge'd to give English an opportunity to bury' the : large 'number of their dead. This statements gives an incorrect impression of heavy British losses. The facts were' that after the 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 wounded, the. enemy having previously fired on our parties, causing a mutual abandonment of the collection of wounded and dead.

Palestine Hedjaz official: Troops, of King of Hedjaz during the week ended :24th occupied fiftythree miles of the. Hedjaz'railway southward of Mann_