IMPENDING IN FLANDERS AND ALSACE

Taranaki Daily News, 7 October 1918, Page 5

IMPENDING IN FLANDERS AND ALSACE

ALLIES WEARING DOWN THE ENEMY mm nEEIS TAKE DURRAZZO (_« • . 'T 'T.- - « KING FERDINAND ARDICATES

PALESTINE

ALLENBY'S TRIUMPHANT MARCH. ■ ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTIONi AT DAMASCUS. teat XSfi GREATEST DAT IN 4000 YEARS. Received l Oct. 0, 5.S pjn. London, Oct. 5. Mr.Maisey, writing from Damascus on October 1, cays: General Allenby's trinmphant march northward into Syria tWf morning drove the Turks completely oat of Damascus. The city was enveloped by British, Australian, and Indian troops. The King of Hedjaz's Arab army has marched ia a few Turks who got away, (eating and demoralised. Fully 12,000 Germans attd Turks were prisonered in and abont the city, and a number of guns were captured. The roads are shambles where the enemy resisted, and t Iw transport smashed, while most of the material left behind was destroyed by the Germans, though some valuable transport, including a complete park of cavalry ambers, was untouched. Tin prisoners captured since September 19 are probably over 90,000. General Allenby has crushed out of existMce the Turks' 4th, 7th, and Bth Armies. It is impossible for'a triumph to he more complete. Our casualties are very slight. j The armies received a great welcome j from tile population. The people threw off their stolid exterior and received us with ecstatic joy, closed their shops, and proclaimed t&e day as the greatest in PamaCttHi in the 4000 ye4ra of its histanr. The Turks and Germans who had gone into biding came forward and surrendered as soon as our presence ensured security. At some cases whole companies of Turkish soldiers marched In under escort of a few Arabs. Never were the taw* more.thoroughly turned. We released Dr. Forder, the missionary at Jerusalem, who had been a prisoner for two and a half years in Damascus. Three nurses were also rescued, Who were serving as nurses at the Victoria Hospital, which had been converted into k Bed Crescent hospital. They were ifltiS, - It was good to hear that a number of British evffiani, who had been interned it -various parts of Central Asia Minor, i[«J lately been removed to Constantinople in. view of an exchange for Turkish tjrieo&era. barn evidence of the permanence of German aspirations there. Btfiase of this is furnished by the fain wireless station, one of the most Mintfnl in the woiid, which had been ertaMUted since the war. likewise OMnnaßs bakeries and printing works. AM. , NX. Cable Aseoc. r 79,000 PRISONERS. y ataman CLEARING THE COUNTRY. . Beeeived Oct. 7, 1-3 ajn. London, Oct. 6. A Palestine official message states Oat the general situation is unchanged. Onr cavalry northward and westward of T)ciiicci in are clearing the country and hare prisonered over 15,000. flfatce-September 18 we have captured 7LOOO prisoners sod 390 gnns. Hweein's Arabe prisonered an additional MOB. in these figures an several Tmß&,* commanders and SMI 'Assoc and SnHt " Received Oct. ®, li p.m. Hew York, Ost 5. The total Turks captured in Palestine by the Britiaheod «»ecd.7om «nd the gnu. 360.-srecc Association.