A TURKISH COMMUNIQUE.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14874, 24 September 1918, Page 5

A TURKISH COMMUNIQUE.

ADMISSIONS AND DENIALS

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Reuter.)

(Admiralty, per Wireless Press).

(Received Sepfe 22, 7.45 p.m.)

London, Sept. 22. A Turkish communique dealing with the British attack speaks of most violent all-night fighting on Wednesday | -with forces continually reinforced on a wide front east of the Jerusalem -Kahlua road. The Turks claim that the attapk1 was arrested on th© line JaludWadi Abzu-Zerka, but admit that after two hours' violent bombardment, supported by naval guns and desperate hand-to-hand fighting, the British penetrated the Turkish positions between the coast and the Lydda-Tulkeram railway, and add that the Turks have withdrawn to Tulkeram.