PALESTINE.
ADVANCING THE LINE. SOUTH-WESTWARD OF GAZAV Received Sept. 1, 5.5 pa, Loudon, Aug. 31. Egypt official: We advanced our lino last nig! it on a front of eight hundred yarda south-westward of Gaza. Our losses were insignificant. Our aeroplanes obtained eight direct hits on the enginesheds at Maan, and caused damage to a field battery. NO IMPORTANT ACTIONS. MOSTLY TRENCH WARFARE. ReutOr Service. Received Sept. 2, 5.5 p.m. London, Sept. 1. Since the operations last April there have been no important actions on the Palestine front. Conditions on both sides are more or less those of trench warfare, the opposing lines being close together near Gaza, but gradually grow ! further apart as they enter the barren 1 and inhospitable region further south, 1 until finally they tail off altogether in the desert, where the Anzac and Imperial mounted divisions keep watch over tha right flank.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1917, Page 5
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146PALESTINE. Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1917, Page 5
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