TURKISH CASUALTIES 10,000.
ASCALON TAKEN.
LONDON, November 11.
Our mounted troops advancing rapidly, taptured another 400 men and 10 guns. Our line now runs in a south-easterly direction, from two miles north of Hamameh to two miles north of Arakel Menshye, on the central railway, generally ten to six miles north of Wadi Hesi. He have occupied Ascalon, 12 y 2 miles north of Gaza. Our aeroplanes continue to bomb bodies of retreating Turks and all important centres of communication, dropping 300 bombs during the past day. The captured guns number 70, of which several are 5.9 in calibre. Sir Edmund Allenby, the commander-in-chief, estimates the enemy's casualties at 10,000 exclusive of prisoners.
The "Cologne Gazette" admits the Turkish defeats, and adds that British ships' have been sighted off Ascalon preparing to land, but the Turkish army has taken the necessary measures of prevention.
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Northern Advocate, 13 November 1917, Page 3
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