BRITISH VICTORY IN PALESTINE.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14875, 25 September 1918, Page 5

BRITISH VICTORY IN PALESTINE.

TURKISH ARMIES OUT OF

EXISTENCE.

ENTIRE TRANSPORT CAPTURED.

TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND PRISONERS COUNTED.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association}

i London, Sept. 23. A Palestine communique says:—Having- Seized the passages of the Jordan and Jisr-ed-Damieh bn Sunday morning, the enemy's last avenue of escape westward of river was closed and the Seventh and. Eighth Turkish armies virtually ceased to exist.'

Their entire transport was captured by 8 o'clock.

Twenty-five thousand prisoners and 260 guns have been counted. Many prisoners and much material have not yet been enumerated.