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Show BRITISH ARMY DEFEATS TURKS II PALESTINE i 900 Prisoners Taken and a Force of 20,000 Moslems Put to Flight; Entire Division Staff Taken. GERMANS ENTRENCH ON WESTERN FRONT Whether Hindenburg Line Has Been Reached Will Not Be Known for Some Time. LONDON, March 29. The British army in Palestine has defeated a Turkish Turk-ish army of 20,000 men, capturing 'J00 men, including the entire divisional staff of the Fifty-third Turkish division. di-vision. The official statement says that British Brit-ish troops have advanced for a distance of fifteen miles along the southern Palestine coast of the Mediterranean. The British forces have pushed forward from Eafa to the Wadi Ghuzieh, a river five miles south of Gaza (Ghuzzeh Gaza is twenty miles north of the Egyptian-Syrian boundary). The official statement reads: Telegraphing yesterday, the commander-in-chief in Egypt reports that we advanced our troops fifteen miles from Kafa to the Wadi Ghuzzeh, Ghuz-zeh, five miles south of Gaza, to cover the construction of a railway. On Monday and Tuesday we were heavily engaged in this neighborhood neighbor-hood with a irorce of about 20,000 of the enemy. Wo inflicted very heavy losses on him, taking 900 prisoners, including the general commanding and the whole division staff of the Fifty-third Turkish division. di-vision. This figure includes four Austrian . officers' and thirty-two Austrians and Germans of other ranks. We also captured two Austrian Aus-trian 4.2-inch Howitzers. All the troops behaved splendidly, splendid-ly, especially the troops of the Welsh, Kent, Sussei, Hereford, Middlesex and Surrey regiments, and tho Anzac . and Yeomanry mounted troops. BRITISH INFLICT HEAVY LOSSES ON GERMAN FORCES LONDON, March 29, 8:50 p. m. The British forces in France have captured the village of Neuville Bourjonval, cast of Ypres, according to this evening's official communication. Heavy casualties were inflicted on the Germans. The statement says: The village of Neuville Bourjonval Bourjon-val was captured this morning after af-ter a short fight in which the enemy en-emy lost heavily. We took a few prisoners. Our raiding parties entered the enemy 's lines during the night east of Arras and in the neighborhood of Neuville-St. aast and Neuve Chapelle. Several dugouts were destroyed de-stroyed and casualties were inflicted. in-flicted. Two German airplanes were driven down in a dmaged condition condi-tion during air fighting yesterday. Three of our machines 'are missing. miss-ing. GERMANS RETAIN TRENCHES TAKEN FROM THE FRENCH BERLIN, March 29, by wireless to Say ville. French efforts to recapture the positions recently taken from them in the Champagne region were futile, army headquarters announced todnv! Tho French sustained heavy losses in these attacks. A French attack on the German lines in the region of hill 304. northwest of Verdun, carried out on a wide front also failed. Tho British lost fiftv-five men in prisoners in an engagement near Croisilles. Following is the official aceount of operations on the Franco-Belgian front : There was vigorous nrtillerv fighting yesterday, continuing into the niglit. between Lens and Arras. Before daybreak yesterday in an engagement near Croisiilos and Kcoust St. Moinnein. northeast of Bapaunie, the British lost one officer of-ficer and fifty four men. who were, taken prisoner, in addition to numerous nu-merous men who were killed bv an advance of our protecting troops. In the Champagne several attacks at-tacks undertaken by the French in nn effort to regain the trenches captured cap-tured from them failed with heavv lesses. On the left bank of the Mcnse (Verdun front) yesterday, our defensive de-fensive fire frustrated French advances ad-vances against hill 304 which were in preparation. This morning the (Continued on Page Three.) ' j BRITISH ARMY BEATS TURKS li PALESTINE (Ccntlnued from Page One.) attack launched on a wide front failed under our fire and at one place through a counter-attack. East of Verdun our airmen shot down two captive balloons. In air engagements and by defensive de-fensive fire four enemy airplanes were brought down. |
