PALESTINE.

Taihape Daily Times, 9 May 1918, Page 5

PALESTINE.

THE PALESTINE RAID. ENEMY'S 'SEVERE LOSSES. LONDON, May 7. Mr W. T. Massey, official correspondent with the Egyptian Forces, writing from Jericho on Sunday, says: By dawn this morning an operation cast of the Jordan was completed which brought into our hands nearly a thousand Turks and Germans as prisoners. Wo depleted the enemy' force by many casualties and inflicted severe losses on them in war material. It was another successful raid in the mountains of Gilead. As we watched the Anzac cavalry and British yeomanry across the Joran Valley in the intense heat they were hardly distinguishable through' dense dust clouds- Their fortitude and endurance during five heavy days' work excited the keenest admiration. Since our previous raid on Es Salt and Amman, when Hedjaz railway was damaged, the enemy had collected a largo force to guard Shunet Nimrin. At the foot of the mountain pass leading from the Ghoraniyeh bridge over the Jordan to EsSalt, it was hardly possible to conceive a position of greater strength or more easily defended.