ENVELOPING MOMENT BY BRITISH INFANTRY

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 228, 24 September 1918, Page 5

ENVELOPING MOMENT BY BRITISH INFANTRY

FLEEING ENEMY DRIVEN INTO ARMS OF CAVALRY. LONDON, September 23. An official rrport from British headquarters iv Palestine states: —By 9 o'clock on Saturday evening the left wing of our infantry, pivoting on their left Hank about Uir Asur, 15 milee north of Jerusalem, had reached the line Beit. Dejan (fiva miles cast of Nablus) Sumaria-Bir Asur, shepherding the enemy on and west of the Jerusalcm-Nablus road into the arms of the cavalry operating couth from Jenin and Beisan. Other enemy columns attempted to escape into the Jordan Valley in the direction of Jisr-cd-Damieh, which the enemy still held. These columns Buffered severely, boing constantly bombed and attacked with machine-guns by aeroplanes living at low altitudes. We bold Na7,aretli and the railway and Toad passages over the Jordan at Jisr-cl-Mujamiu, nine miles south of the tea. of Galilee, liighteen thousand prisoners and 120 guns have been counted. \A. and jN'.Z. and ....