THE PALESTINE CAMPAIGN
Palestine official: Our aeroplanes on Sunday bombed camps at Miskeh, and secured 47 direct hits. On Monday they bombed the same objectives, and 37 direct hits \yere obtained. All the planes returned. The Arabs at Hedjaz routed 11 battalions of Turks 11 miles north of Tafile on January 26, killing 400 arid capturing 300 men two mountain guns, 18 machine guns, and 1800 rifles. The Arabs on January 28 successfully attacked a Turkish post on the east shore of the Dead Sea. Only 40 Turks escaped and 60 Turks were captured.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3335, 13 February 1918, Page 15
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