THE MEW COMMANDER IN PALESTINE.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14540, 18 October 1917, Page 2

THE MEW COMMANDER IN PALESTINE.

GENERAL SIR & H. H. ALLESJ3Y

i .General Sir. E. H. H. Allen by,! X.C.8., recently arrived in Egypt, "and!■ Jms taken ever the command of the Kx-' peditionary Force. Sir Archibald Mu'r- I ray's .successor, in the. command of the army on 'the Palestine front, which has ;not boon seriously engaged since th»> second attack on Gaza in Anril has Ilitherto commanded the Third Army jin France. In the years immediately .j before the war ho was Inspector cf Cavalry. By its victory at Arras the i Third Army breached the northern-end .of the Hindenburg line, and its share in the booty of the first phase of the battle was 8000 prisoners and !50 guns.' j General Allenby, who is 56 years of age, had seen service in more than one expedition in South Africa beforo iie rejoined his regiment (the Inniskilling Dragoons) to take part in the South Arrican He was present at the operations at Paardeberg, and the actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria and Diamond Hill, and was throb""'times mentioned in despatches, receivin--- the brevet of colonel and the C.B. * ■