PALESTINE.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 June 1918, Page 5

PALESTINE.

BRILLIANT OPERATION. fSmSB USE ADVANCED. gmtnd Jme E, 730 pjn. London, June 11 'Writing from Palestine headquarters fen Jvub 10, Mr Massey reports that kSgUj (tueanfnl operations materially horned the positions of the coastal atom at the end of May, by which the Itße mi advanced a mile on a seven ttfles front We hold all the ground gained. Iks statement in a highly colored ItaUdt eomnnmiqae that they re-took <IM ÜBS by in immediate counterattack ii quite inaccurate, the fact belag tfcat aevval counterattacks were Completely repulsed witfc heavy less Moot two mflee north of -Aisor. Hie enemy st3l had obsermtiorf over for Hew lmes from two knofls It was ieoded to eject them bom these elevattl portions en the ridge- On Saturday at dayfcreak the Scottish troops, moving ■p the mat, got behind tie Tnrigsh tfOtAm and rolled op the line, while bfian troops, advancing behind a barings, eaptnred the Mgh ground. All the Tttfa ware aoconnted for, a htmIred prisoners being taken lie operetta was perfectly carried out, the two a<JuMii« co-operating with fine precision, t-(ftws Association.