THE PALESTINE ADVANCE

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 77, 27 September 1918, Page 7

THE PALESTINE ADVANCE

TURKISH FOURTH ARMY SURROUNDED

IN DANGER OF ANNIHILATION

(ATJSTBAUAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received September 27, 8.30 a.m.) ■ • . %TEW YORK, 26th September. The Fourth Turkish Amy, east of the Jordan, has been surrounded, aid is in danger of annihilation. • . ..'.■■■ " The British in Palestine have occupied Tiberias (or Tabariyeh) and Semakh. East of the Jordan they have captured Amman. [Tiberias ia on the west shore of the Lake of Tiberias or Sea of Galilee. Semakh is at the southern end, two miles east of the point where the Jordan leaves the Lake. Amman is 30 miles north-east of the Dead Sea.] \ (AT7STBALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION AND RECTEB.) LONDON, 25th September. An official report from Palestine states:. East of the Jordan we are approaching Amman, north of which the Arabs, had effected important demolitions of the railway. Other Arabs are pressing the enemy, who is retiring northward* from Maan. We have taken over 40,000 prisoners and 265 guns. (AUSTBALIAN-NBW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) ' ' . LONDON, 25th September. It is understood that the 265 guns which were captured represents practically the whole of the artillery of the two Turkish armies. The Turks east of the Jordan are now cut in two sections, both cut off from their base at Damascus. The Turkish centre, near Maan, is threatened by. the British advance on Amman, and their position is critical.

SMALL BRITISH CASUALTIES (Received September 27, 9 a.m.) ' NEW YORK,' 26th September. The British casualties in Palestine do not exceed four thousand. . THANKSGIVING FOR DELIVERANCE OF PALESTINE . ■ -LONDON, 25th September. The Archbishop of Canterbury proposes to observe next Sunday ac a. Thantagiving Day for the deliverance of the Holy Land. • <• ■