PALESTINE.
AEROPLANE BOMBING. j ARABS ROUT TURKS. Received Feb. 8, 10.40 p.m. London, Feb. 7. Palestine official: Aeroplanes on Sunday bombed camps at Miskey, registering forty-seven hits. On Monday they bombed the same objectives, making 37 direct hits. All returned. The Arabs at Hedjaz routed eleven battalions of Turks eleven miles north of Tafile on the 26th, killing four hundred and capturing three hundred men, two mountain guns, eighteen machine guns and eight hundred rifles. The Arabs on January '27 successfully attacked a Turkish post on the oast shore ot' the Dead Sea, Only forty Turks escaped. Sixty Turks were captured.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 February 1918, Page 5
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101PALESTINE. Taranaki Daily News, 9 February 1918, Page 5
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