ROYAL MESSAGE TO GENERAL ALLENBY.

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

ROYAL MESSAGE TO GENERAL ALLENBY.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

and Reuters.)

"(Received September 24, 11 p.m.) London, September 23. The Press Bureau states that the King telegraphed i.s follows to General; Allenby:—"With pride and admiration; we "have received the news of your ably •. conceived and brill in ntly carried out operations in which the British, Indian, i and Allied forces under your command, with the support of iha, Royal Navy, hnve gained comoloto victory. lam confident that this will rank as one of the groat exploits in the history of the British Empire, and eve stand bs n memorable testimony to BHiish le-ider-i»b,in find the fishtinsr qurl'tiflo- of the British and Indian troops."

CABLE -NEWS.

(.Press Association;—Coptbiohx.]