PALESTINE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 146001, 6 December 1917, Page 3

PALESTINE.

COMMANDING POSITIONS HELD. ALL WELL WITH BRITISH. LONDON, Doc. 4. Mr. Massey, writing on November 29, said ; “We have got such a hold on nil the commanding positions in the Judea hilts that I am able to report ‘All’s well I’ ” The Turks wrecked and looted Latrum before retiring. POSITION AT ADEN. AREA HELD BY BRITISH. LONDON, Dec, 4. In the House of Lords. Lord Curzon said: “We are holding an arc of eleven miles from Aden. So far as is known, the Turks in the vicinity are, not in communication with Turkey. They have received neither supplies nor reinforcements.”