PALESTINE.
CONVERGING ON AMI: AN. Received March 2!j. 5.5 p.m. London, March 23. Palestine ollicial: Our riirces eastward of the Jordan are converging on Amman. The mounted* are within half a mile of the town. Aeroplanes heavily bombed the traffic on the Hedja/. railWilV.
Mr. Mnssoy report: Thorn was keen fighting on .Saturday am! Sunday. but tile troops were irresistible. Near Sluiiift-Xi.nrin (hey captured four guns, also about forty C.Vnnans. Australian airmen heavily bombed tlio troops and transport, scoring many direct bits and scattering £he (iorniann. Tlio weather is against ir. Heavy rains again made tlie Jericho road a mass of slippery nuid and almost impassable for wheel trallic, and only pack transport could move. The troops triumphed over the adveive conditions. With the Anznc cavalry on both llanlcs, the Londoners made their way through the foothills into the mountains over 3(10i) feet above the level of the "Jordan. On Sunday evening thev were only 1500 yards from Kssalt when a thick mist stopped their progress, but at sunrise next morning Essnlt and the surrounding heights were captured and the. Turks and Germans driven northward-
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 March 1918, Page 5
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185PALESTINE. Taranaki Daily News, 30 March 1918, Page 5
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