PALESTINE CAMPAIGN.
(By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association.) ■ (Reuter's Telegrams.) (Received May 3rd. 11.15 p.m.) LONDON, May 1. A Palestine official report states: "We resumed operations eastward of tho .Jordan on May Ist. "While our infantry attacked the enemy holding the foothills south-west-ward and southward of Es Salt, Australian mounted troops entered the village, taking prisoner 33 Germans and 311 Turks. "During those operations a mounted brigade which watched the crossings of the Jordan was attacked and forced back by superior numbers of the enemy, ■who crossed the river during the night. Tho horse artillery and batteries supporting this brigade, in most difficult, broken country, -were obliged to abandon nine guns. The necessary support for the dctached brigade was immediately forthcoming. Tho operations are proceeding. •'We repulsed local attacks at several points westward of the Jordan."
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16203, 4 May 1918, Page 9
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