PALESTINE PURSUIT.

Evening Star, Issue 16847, 24 September 1918, Page 3

PALESTINE PURSUIT.

JORDAN EXIT BLOCKED, NO ESCAPE FOR TURKS. Prosa Association—By Telegraph— Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Reuter. LONDON, September 22. A Palestine communique suites: By 9 p.m. on Saturday our loft wing of infantry, pivoting on their loft about Birasur, haxl reached a hue Bertdegan-faaruaria-Birasur, and were “ Biu-phoixung tuo enemy on and westward of the JerusalemNablus road into the anus of the cavalry operating southward from Jenin and Behan. , Other enemy columns attempted to escape into tiie Jordan \ alley, in the auction of Jisr and Ed Damieli, wluch the enemy still hold. Those columns sufferod sovorely, being 1 bonibcwl and mactaine-guiiiied i’i'Oin low iutitudos bj our airmen. , . A . .. I>ater wo hold Xazjaretn o-nd the ra-i. a-nd road over the Jordan at Jisr and Ed Damieli. Eighteen thousand prisoners and 120 guns have been counted. Admiralty per Wireless Press. LONDON, September 22. A Turkish communique, dealing with tho early stages of the British attack, speaks of most violent nightlong fighting on September 18, with forces continually reinforced _orv a wide front east of the Jerusaicm-Nablus road. The Turks claim that the attack was arrested on tho line Jalud-Wndi Abzu-Zc-rka i but admits Lliat, after two hours violent bombardment, supported by naval gutw and desperate hand-to-hand fighting; tno British penetrated the 1 urku-li positions between the coast and the Lydda-rulkoram railway, and adds: The Turks have withdrawn to Tulkeram.