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EGYPT.

• , ROUTING THE TURKS. ■ J - 1 ; GENERAL, STAFF AND 20,000 MBS i I .* CAPTURED. > j ■ * - ''4 ' London, March 29. , \ Twenty thousand Turks .have beeri * defeated south of Gaza, in Palestine. -,0 E'gypt oflicial.—We advanced fifteeti M miles from to Wadi Sheriah, fife * miles southward of Gaza, for the pur- *' f* pose of covering 'the construction of : J railway. We were heavily engaged with j i! 20.0C0, of the enemy in this neighborhood ''i on Monday anil Tuesday and inflicted 1 heavy losses, talcing 900 prisoners, in« ' V cluding the General Commanding and ' tlie staff of the 53rd Turkish Division. ,>\ Four Austrian officers were captured and ■'.< two Austrian howitzers. All the troops behaved splendidly, especially the Welsh, ; J Kent, Sussex, Hereford, Middlesex audi rf Surrey regimcjits, the Anzao mounted; V i men and the Yeomanry.. ". : j

[Gaza is a town near the MedltemgH - -1 ean and twelve miles north-eMt of "! Rafa, the Turkish boundary tomr 'j | lately taken by our forces. It hu » ' '''3 population of *O,OOO, lb was one ot the most powerful tPlhUistine centra* and was the scene of the death of Sam*, ' ' son, the story of which is told in Jud«»' \ « H>. It was captured by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C. The CruMden ''• built a citadel there in 1140, which r®.. ' sisted Saladin until 1187. It fell to ' Napoleon in 1799 and will no doubt) shortly be captured by the advancing / British force, which consists chiefly « Australians and New Zealandere.J , ' ■

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Taranaki Daily News, 31 March 1917, Page 5

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EGYPT. Taranaki Daily News, 31 March 1917, Page 5

EGYPT. Taranaki Daily News, 31 March 1917, Page 5

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