PALESTINE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 28 September 1918, Page 7

PALESTINE.

RAPID BRITLSH ADVANCE. EXCELLENT WORK OF SUPPLY DEPARTMENT. TREMENDOUS TASK EFFICIENTLY TACKLED. (Received Sep. 28, 11.20 a.m.) . . LONDON, Sep. 27. Mr Massey, writing from Palestine on Thursday, says: General Allenby's army's pace does not slacken, although a portion of the force has advanced well over fifty miles. The supply question is one of paramount importance, as the army is going forward practically everywhere. (The vast character of the victory is only to be. appreciated by a close study of maps. This is not the place or time to enter into details of organisation of the supply branch, but the efforts ofthis department are fully in% keeping with all other staff work. Those of us who have seen what is going on at the front can declare that the problem is being tackled with marvellous efficiency. All across the'country we ccc columns of lorries and light cars \ rfsarrying rations, and fodder, camel F trains, and huge lines of donkey transport, each in the place where its service can be best employed. The men's •testimony is perhaps the best, and I lave yet to hear a single grouse at the food. Captured rolling stock is already carrying heavy supplies/ We are round the, west and south of the Sea of Galilee. At Setakh, on the south, the Turks fought" with desperation, but heavy street fighting resulted to our advantage.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.