PRISONERS AND MUNITIONS.
EAR-FLUNG BATTLEPTELIX
SIX HUNDRED SQUARE MILES,
(Australian and N._. etc. and Reuter.)
(Press Assn. —Reed. 7.55 p m.)
LONDON, November 11
An Egyptian official message says:— "General Allenby's advance was continued on Saturday on the left wing in the neighbourhod of Esdtul (ancient Ashdod.) 'The eineniy _ rear guard had Occupied a line along the northern branch of the Nehr Sukereir. The Royal Flying Corps effectually bombarded the Wadi-Surar junction.
''.Our nitiuiiteds tin Friday captured five five-point howitzers, eight field guns, and took prisoner 7id of the enemy. "As the battlefield is six hundred square miles the list of booty is incomplete. "The Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry on Thursday, near ttujj in the face of heavy-gun, machine gun, and i_fl§ fire charged with the greatest gallantry a large body of the enemy and captured twelve guns, killing or wounding thle Austrian gunners."
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Northern Advocate, 13 November 1917, Page 3
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