SECOND EDITION

Nelson Evening Mail, 21 May 1917, Page 1

SECOND EDITION

Western front. ANOTHER iIiRTTKIH SUCCESS. ANOTHER. SECTION OF HLNiDKiXiBTJRG LINE TAKEN. HEAVY GERMAiN' .LOSSES. FIGHTING continues IN OU'tt FAVOUR. The High Commissioner reports:— London, JMay 20, 10 p.m. A British oflicdal report states that as? a result of an olbback: early this morning f\ve established ourselves on a further section of the Hindenburg line over a mile front between Fontaine an'!' Les Croiselles and Bullecourt. The enemy made several unsuccessful attempts to shako our hold on his positions. There was fierce fighting: in the ueich- . bourhood thronghovlt the- day. There have oeen heavy enemy casualties. The figbtyig continues in oui favot.tr. PALESTINE. OFFICIAL- 'SELrEN'OE REGARDT-NY; THE CAMPAIGN. x J SUG-GESTIONI THAT <3AZA BATTLE WAS NOT SO FAVOURABLE AS ■ REPORTED 1 . TURKS' AND TfHE JEWS. Australian »nd N./. GaW« - and Reut-er.) , (R«c. Mav 21, 2.10 p.m.V 'LONDON', May 20.. There is much comment on the official silence regarding the Palestine campaign. Thp Pall Mall Gazette says thai .the sequel suggests that the Gaza- Battle was much less 'favourable than the of- , ficial' reports indicate. The impression prevails <that the objective was not detained, and that tke casualties Were high. . The strictest martial law prevails m Jerusalem. .Schools have been closed/ • and' newspapers prohibited. jThe official archives and treasures bavlp l been hurried northward. Tho Turks are brutally treating :«r-, eig-ners. , . 4 The Jewish .Society at Palestine telegraphed to the Socialist Congress- at - Stockholm tint the Turkish Government had ordered the Jews to evacnatft Palps tine, including Judea, Jerusalem nr;i Galileo, and that the order was l>ein« • enforced' with increasing severity _ ,ui:* pillage, threatening-to culminate in rt massacre similar fo that in Arjr.eim. ,