OCR Text |
Show HEBRON CAPTURED BY BRITISH TROOPS No Infantry Action on Cam-brai Cam-brai Front; Major Thaw Wins Air - Duel. LONDON. Occ. 7. General L. H. H. Allcnby rejiur; that he has occupied the town of Ileb'.un. in Kstesiiuc. tin; British war office a nuounccJ tonight. ' Ancient Hebron, today called by the Arabian name oT El Khulil, Is situated about twenty miles sou t Invest of Jerusalem, Jeru-salem, "tvith approximately In, 000 inhabitants. inhab-itants. The taking of rlebron is of interest, in-terest, because tradition identifies it as the site of the tombs of Abraham and other pairia n-lis. K in a' T.Javid resided there tlie first seven years of his rein. A maqnificeii'. mo-iiie. accessible only to Mohammedans, stands upon the traditional tradi-tional site of the patriarch's burial place. PAWS Dec. 7. Major William Thaw of the Lafayette escadrillc brought down a German airplane In a duei over the, enemy's en-emy's lines on Wednesday, according tn a telephone message rei eived in Paris last night, says tlie Herald today. LONDON. Pec. 7. The British official communication iMJcd this evening says: A succcspfi;! local operation was carried out loJay noith of T-i Vac-qiierio Vac-qiierio Candrai :jc-tor . Trenches were captured by i he Ulster troops, improving our line at this point. Southeast of Ypres our pat rols last night success fu 11 y a tlacled hostile hos-tile working pa rt ies. North east of Vpres a hosrile raid wax repulsed and n number of casualties were inilicteil on the enemy. in these encounters prisoners tvrue taken. PARIS. Pec. 7. Tho following official coinriiunical ion was issued thiLs c enin: Considerable art ilWy act i H by both sitP's has prevailed in tbe. rczinn of Maisous dc Cbauipa.criic and iu the rlcjlit bank of the Meusc. There have been no infantry actions. During the tiicriit of December .7.-6 our airplanes bombed the stations at Fribourc and Thlonvillo and ulr-n various va-rious depots and lantunmcnts tehind t lie enemy's line. On tho Pridian front, on the ihh and 7th, theie wno tin: customary arrll);ry nm;i ceineij l s, osporially ispir-iterj ispir-iterj in the regions of Porvyee a nd Merokem. A lon rauxc sun fired smne :dieiH in tbe cn-irfinp nf AdcnklrUe. Army of il,.. east, . io-enibrr ii; There h: been light, artillerv actlviiv on the wln.le nf ihe uoui. i ,'oid w.-ativ;r is ha uipei in tin; np--i;i I ions, j l-nilisb pa truly have raptured some I prisoner? iu Hie. region of Sere-. |