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Show Nl GENERAL LEADSJRETREAT Enemy Commander Far in Advance of His Fleeing Troops. AMSTERDAM, Monday, Nov. 23. The stamper! m? completeness of the Turco-German Turco-German debacle in Palestine and Syria is thown the German public In an eye-witness eye-witness story published In the- Yossische 1 y.f.itun of Berlin. The miter attacks General Liman von Sander?, 1lic German commander in tho Turkish field of opera-lions, opera-lions, for his "incredible, incapacity and negligence. The lerninn general's entire concern, lie declares, was for the safety of the pencral's daughters, who were at a seaside sea-side resort. He likewise confirms tho Uritich reports of tiie general's flight, Vvhich tiio British official statement worded: f "Tho enemy commander-in-chief fled far in the rear of his troops." How the British break-through occurred 1 fn September IS vst of the Jordan, i. described by the writ.fr. The whole of the central hen d'luurters t:tffi w;is captured in their hdi on September ?h and a complete com-plete rout followed. East of the Jordan r the troops of th Turkish army heard of tVie break-through too lnie (o retreat successfully. suc-cessfully. The British fell on their rear, and. their position Lnvanie hopeless. The Turks wen rarely teen on the retreat. re-treat. They either fled in good time or surrendered. Two German detachments, the writer declares, made a last gallant effort to stem the tide, but when this resistance re-sistance broke down the remnants of the army fled., eompletfly demoralized, to Aleppo, where they added to the confusion prevailing there. An epidemic of influenza influ-enza completed the havoc. The account end? thus: "All the army saved was four guns, the commander-in-chief, his daughters, and the hitter's baggage."' |