THE PALESTINE CAMPAIGN
MISLEADING TURKISH REPORT. (Australian and N.Z. and Reuter.) Received April 29, 8.40 a.m LONDON, April 28. The War Officee states that a Turkish official report on the 19th stated that the English's request for a two hours' armistice had been arranged to give the English an opportunity to bury a large dumber of their dead. Thii statement gives the impression of heavy British losses. The facts were that after stubborn fighting the enemy, losing heavily, an arrangement was made between a German officer and the British Red Cross for the collection of wounded,the enemy having previously fired on our parties, causing a mutual abandonment of the collection of wounded and dead.
OPERATIONS !N THE HEDJAZ
FIFTY-THREE MILES OF RAILWAY SEIZED.
(Australian, N.Z. and Reuter.) Received April 29, 8.40 a.m. LONDON, April 28. Palestine.Hed.jaz official: The troops of the King of Hedjaz during the week ended the 24th occupied 53 miles of Hedjaz railway southward of Mann. British official: At Salonika on -the lfSth we withdrew unmolested from advanced villages occupied on the 16th. The enemy subsequently shelled the villages.
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Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13753, 29 April 1918, Page 5
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