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 'l FR OUTFLANKED euuiil OUTFUNKED. I Allenfcy's Threat to Jaffa. I I German Defeat in Flanders. I I Seinsai&oiiiii "U" Boat Slump. I AVAR OFFICE, Thursday. General Allenby reports on operations ".n Palestine:— Our infantry and mcuntsd troops cirsiinuesi their advance and we now hold the raiSway Jine in the vicinity of NeenchE-Maswiyah, iriciutiing the junc- tion of the Bee rsh aba-Damascus Rail- way with the line to Jerusalem. TJw looses of the TurSts an the 13th inst. wero hsavy, 400 having been buried at Katrah. I Our captures on that day amounted tc 1,530 prissnsrs, 20 machine-guns and I 5 guns. WAR OFFICE, Wednesday night. General Allenby reports that at 11 p.m. on November 13, after stiff fight- ing on tne 12th with the Turkish forces, which had attempted ta take up a new position on the Wadi Suker- ein, twelve miles north of Askalon, the enemy were driven on the 13th I' by a combined attack of our mounted troops and-tntantry from this position, and forced to retire a distance of five miles to the Wadi Surar, eight miles south of Jaffa. Our troops captured the enemy strongly-entrenched posts at Mesmiyeh, Katrah, and Merghar with magnifi- oent dash, and now hold El Tineth en the east, through Katrah and Yebna to the sea. Full details of the captures are not yet available, but one mounted division alone reported having taken 1,100 prisoners, fourteen machine-guns, and two guns. WELSH ROUT THE "LIGHTNINGS." I (Press Association sspeciai uo-rrespon- dent.) t BRITISH ARMY, Palestine, Monday y (delayed). The Turks, as already stated, have retired northward, but two divisions opposite our right flank are reported to be slowly falling back along the Hebron road. These troops, known as the Lightnings tmd Tempest Divisions, have not yet made a display of the qualities which Inight be considered to justify such high- eounding titles. Only the Yilderims, otherwise "Lightnings," have been in action, and that against Welsh and 'dome County troops, who proved them- selves non-oonductors, compelling the J'urks to streak off in opposite direction. TURKISH REPORT. r (Press Association War Special.) AMSTERDAM, Wednesday Night. < The Turkish official report to-day says:- On the Sinai (Palestine) front battles re- commenced. (Note.—The new British line mentioned In the War Office statement is about 14 tniles long. From El Tineh (on the Jerusa- Ifim-Beeraheba railway) it goes north-weet till it nears the Surar, keeping south of that iwadi. At Yebna, which is on the Gaza railway, it strikes due west to the Mediter. sranean and slightly north of Jerusalem. Muggais which was captured on Tuesday, is on the farther side of the Surar, a mile and a half north of Katrah. Between the Wadi Surar and Jaffa. is open country not inter- sected by any wadi. Since October 30 the ftitish 'Army in Palestine has captured over 7,000 prisoners.) TURK RETIREMENT IN MESOPO- < TAMIA. On Wednesday night the Secretary of the War Office issued the following:— Our forces, after the most successful actions at Tekrit on November 5 and 6. remained at that place until November 8, the whole of the Turkish forces opposed to them having been withdrawn thirty to fifty miles northward, with the exception of a small detachment at Sharaimje. The clearance of the battlefield, and removal or destruction of everything of value having been accomplished, our troope returned to their original posi- tions, according to plans drawn up prior to the advance.

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