THE NEAR EAST.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 14957, 3 January 1919, Page 5

THE NEAR EAST.

CAMPAIGN IN PALESTINE.

GENERAL ALLENBY'S DES-

PATCH

(Australian and N.Z Cable Association

and Reuter.)

London, Dec. 30. General Allenby's despatch refers to the brilliant achievements of the cavalry. He says:—"The Australian, and New Zealand Mounted Division, by entering the pursuit, threw the Turkish Fourth Army into a state of disorganisation, intercepted the garrison, at Maan, and compelled it to surrender. General Chaytor's force took 10,000 prisoners in the Valley of the Jordan. "The Royal Air Force and the Ausr tralian Flying Corps did brilliant work, not only during the actual operations, but during the preceding months. The process, of wearing, down the enemy's strength in the air .was continuous throughout the summer. Our ascend- ; ancy was so marked towards the end of!

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August that only a few of the enenrVs aeroplanes' were able to fly. As Hie result the strength of the air forse could be concentrated on the retreating enemy." ,