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Show DEFEAT ADMITTED BY TURKEY IN OFFICIAL REPORT LONDON, Sept. 22. The following official of-ficial communication issued by the Turkish Tur-kish war office Friday was received litre today: "On the evening of the ISth the expected ex-pected British attack began on a wide front east of the JerusrJem-Nabulus road. The first onslaught failed. Fighting Fight-ing with constantly reinforced troops continued con-tinued the nitrht long with extreme vio-' vio-' lence. At dawn the attacking force was broken and the attack brought to a standstill stand-still on the JaJud Wady-Abs Vzorka line. "Meanwhile on the coastal sector the British opened a violent artillery bombardment, bom-bardment, aided by their naval (runs. After two hours of artillery preparation there was desperate hand-to-hand fight-ine fight-ine and the enemy succeeded in penetrating pene-trating our positions between the. coast and the Lydda-Tul Keram railway. Because Be-cause of great numerical superiority of the enemy we moved our troops into positions at Tul Kerum, where fresh attacks at-tacks are expected. "On the Jordan in the Wady Auja and .Terico districts we caught the enemy under un-der an effective fire." |