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Show TURKISH ARMY IS DEFEATED Twenty Thousand Men Lose Heavily in Battle With British. ENTIRE STAFF TAKE1N Nine Hundred Men, Foui Austrian Officers and Two 4.2-inch Howitzers Captured. LONDON. March 29, 1:45 p m. The British army in Palestine has de feated a Turkish army of 20.000 men capturing 900 men, including the en tire divisional staff of the Fifty-third Turkish division. The official statement reads: "Telegraphing yesterday, the com raander-in chief in Egypt reports that we advanced our troops fifteen mile from Rafa to the Wadi Ghuzzeh, Ave miles south of Gaza, to cover the construction con-struction of a railway. "On Monday and Tuesday we were heavily engaged in this neighborhood with a force of about 20,000 of the en emy. We inflicted very heavy losses on him, taking 900 prisoners, including tho general commanding and the whole division of staff of the Fifty-third Fifty-third Turkish division. This figure includes four Austrian officers and thirty-two Austriana and Germans of other ranks. We also captured two Austrian 4.2 inch howitzers. "All the troops behaved splendidlv. especially the troops of the Welsh, Kent, Sussex. Hereford, Middlesex and Surrey regiments and the Anzac and Yeomanry mounted troops." The official statement saya that British Brit-ish troops have advanced tor a distance dis-tance of fifteen miles along the southern south-ern Palestine coast of tho .Mediterranean. .Mediterra-nean. The British forces have pushed forward from Rafa to the Wadi Ghuzzeh, Ghuz-zeh, a river five miles south of Gaza (Ghuzzez). Gaza is twent miles north of the Egyptian-Syrian boumlurv. |