PALESTINE.
COUNTER-ATTACKS REPULSED BOMBARDING ENEMY'S STRONG POINTS. ! —• •. Reuter .Service, Received Nov. ft, 9 p.m. London ,Nov. 5. The correspondent at headquarters in Palestine reports: To-day counterattacks that were made on our new positions OU the flanks jMW. re])iilsed with heavy loss. We are now bombarding strong points on this part of the enemy's second line. Our captures since the beginning of the offensive include 207 officers and 2400 ■men. Aviators have been very active. Naval planes bombed the railway communications, stores, and the bridge' at Wiljulie, fifteen, miles north of Jaffa, with good, effect. Our airmen bombed:the station and stores at Tel Sherip, on the Beeraheba railway. Another well has been captured north-east of Beersheba. All our men are splendidly fit and keen in spite of th,e great heat and dust, GAZA OPERATIONS CONTINUE. TANKS IN ACTION. Ails, and N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuter. Received Nov. 7, 1.30 a.m. London, Nov, 6. Egypt, official: The Gaza operations continue. We are in l contact with the enemy nodjlnvards ot Beorsheba. The prisoners taken in the:* operations now number 207 officers and 2429 men. Tanks participated in the attack on November 1-
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 November 1917, Page 5
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190PALESTINE. Taranaki Daily News, 7 November 1917, Page 5
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