PALESTINE.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 October 1918, Page 5

PALESTINE.

;>i OPERATIONS ON UPPER fj JORDAN. t PRISONERS NUMBER 30.000 ' Received Sept. 50, 7.45 p.at London, Pept 2!).,"? British official (Pallet ine): —TbrougJij;, out September 2S the enemy resisted the Lake .Tiberias area,: I'olding crossings of the upper Jordan at Jjwj Benat Yakud, and positions tobout I®§|| and Erremcte, astride the ri ails to MtHS zorib and Derra. 'A brigade of Austral lian Light Horse, at e\ 'inv forwtU-M passage to the south of Jisr Ben»t Imd. and on the morning oi Soptembefj 2S the enemy was driven out ot his PQ3WI tions on the upper Jordan) we crossing; to the left bank and undertaking pair of the ibridge. Cavalvv overcame the Ksinlance of th#,j Turks at Irbid and Erremeto. and the morning of September 23 drove enemy northwards tlno'i"h functioning with Km-.- hi \rabs Deraa. The latter < V'Uirrd iho tions of and Gh.i ■>!(> .ind "literal. Beraa and. Shick Ila-md, north-west of Dovaa, on Sepiflmber 2fvi prisonering 1800. • < ■-" . <j|o We, in conjunction with the were approaching Mewreb on the.efofiijS ing of September JS. ers in the southern area. By 27, 5700 were captured, r.n 1 -S guns. .tfl| the op?r;itinns eastward of the •TnrdftiJ! and contacting about K1 miles southward of Amman, Hiding raj; th*> Turks' retreating from AminaO)^ tip to the evening of the 27th took 50,000 prisoner?, and 3?5 gun* havfek have been counted,—Aits,-XK Cable A'ljjg [sociation. •