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Show SLOT'S HUM SIIDBGHIKS Seventh and Eighth Armies Crushed by Swift British Brit-ish Onrush. By W. T. MA&SET. PALESTINE HEADQUARTERS, Sept. 21. (Delayed.) General Allenby ' has crushed the Turkish Seventh and Eighth armies. His cavahw has closed every exit except one, which cannot be reached by many of the enemy, and In a wide encircling en-circling movement Ms horsemen brlllianL-1 brlllianL-1 y brok e d own at I at te m p ts to put up delaying rear guard fights. The cavalry captured Nazareth, Nablus, Beisan and Jenin and have secured an enormous quanttty of valuable booty, and we have not heard the last of their efforts. Once the infantry had broken through the southern defenses, the cavalry had great opportunities, while the infantry haa continued to display superb skill and endurance in driving the enemy from hills between the plain of Sharon and the Judean plateau. The cavalry movements were perfect; y timed arid have been a masterly success. Their unfailing regularity regu-larity in fu!fil;ing the plans laid down by the stan" suggests they were regulated by the elo-k. British yeomanry. Australian lisht horse and Indian cavalry, all in magnified magnifi-ed r;t condition and in a high state of training, have performed a fea t a1 most v.-jthout parallel in this war. TI.e ciiti-a i who cedared th"; day of ca valry is over must hide their beads. Tnt utn-r defeat ' of tne Turkish Palestine army wold not have been possible but for AIerny's bold use of cavalry. Th" whole count":' 1 buve pa.-'-ed (through i !i::orod v.iti: abandoned and I bombed transport amm;.:.:ti&n cier-ota, ! motors, lorries and a tee aiviOjiU or j rolling rtock. Nabi js. the Chc-hem o tne t Bible, was taken t:.:s 2fternoon by Au-:-j tralran bxht horse ar.d FYench non; ! j troops. The Matter pa. sed into T)-e town j j first. We previously bad oc-c :Di?d y,c.:- I . .Ckmiinaed on Pz frr, v ALLEniBY'S BLOW STAGGERS TURKS j (Continued from Page One.) sudles and Samaria by Infantry, o now Nablus. Irish. Welsh and Indian troop, operating In an Appallingly difficult country coun-try between the Nablus road and the Jordan valley, are harassing the remnant of the enemy's forces striving to $et away by ti te Pante ford to the ea.st of Jordan road. Them tho enemy ha.n ben Incessantly bombed. Nearly ten tons of bombs were dropped from low altitudes, and 56.000 rounds of machine-gun fire. The rondlilon of tho road tells of the effectiveness of the nlr work. I dre. tly the 1 .ond oners and Tndlan Infantry In-fantry hail carried three lines of trenches on the Ptiro.tM early on Thiirda y. and the Yeomanry and Ind In n cavalry mo e, up the seu.shore at a gallop, crossed Nuhr , Failkswt north and got over Nahr Iskwndoran. collrcttng 7..0 prisoners on the way. After sundown they advanced I northeast, left thp low ground, not Into I the hills east of Mount Or rum I, rod over I t hr plain of l-(lnelon a nd at sunrtMe yeHirrdnv climbed the hill on which N;i?.nreth si:inds. T here they met with considerable op-posit op-posit ion, but surrounded the town, which whs tnkep during (he morning with 2.100 prisoner. The mayor In surrendering the town, stated that l.lmnn Vnnsander. the German-Turkish generalissimo, left N,i naret h t he pre'ioiis evening when lie heard the cnvulry were over at Uk.i nlorun. 1 saw t his 1-Rtch of prison em as I en me over t he pin in tori; y. They included many Gnrm:i n televrnpbi'rs. mocha nlcs and ol her tochnlcrtt troops. The section nf cavalrr In capttirlnc N'n.T.irct'i covcrcl ovrr fifty mtlcs In twenty-four hours wit'i tiff fichtlnc tn sevrn I places. A not her ca VAlry coJ'.imn p-tsr-1 t muli T.ibuor rtcfpusos i'i;J w$y mo oil nortli a few mllrs from the cot. Tins ws com-poso.l com-poso.l of Yeoninnrv rid I rutin n lrv. tiieir ohje'-tlvo leinic Afuir. vhro the tlult;i railw.i- Joins I i if lino from trie ut h. MJir'hlni; t liniush N 115:1111s P.(.s during nlcht and ncfcrlm: too prisoners prison-ers on tho y, thry were nppo.id at lotlnn. tho ancient Mridtlo. ami beat off the enemy. lie fore ntlvanctnc Into the pjlns, the rveiment Indian lancor?, actirc s a,l-vatn'e a,l-vatn'e iinnis. Ua .1:1 opportunity all alrv desire. A T-.irsiM hatta'i.in lic'':'.y dw; in on a : lat h'vhu t wo iv, 1 ;,s t": mn th- on-trrxtvc on-trrxtvc to the pass. T'ia ijn.vn dashed out of the nunnw def ;h tsliopm: over this pla in of Arm a set don and crashed into the infa n try and machine dinners with lances, killing ninety, wounding as many more and t:kiiK 410 prisoners. The ch.an:e was most brilliantly executed, t'avalry had to gallop ox er exposed crxund aain.vt heavy rifle and tnadime ;:;in fire. 1 hut never faltered, each wave of horse men r-d'i c :h:v not killed trf- j. The co'iiTvi ts-s" plain to A;'u s.iort it to. " captunl :nJ v' hoot v taken. i:; Worrotixes. :' ,0 , torses ard P'1 ; iU neral Al'c; most v'omp'ete tv'1 few iTii:v.per:s"it .nv.iv in dr'.h''''"- .'s have ceased te hcen kiiUM or |