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Show ALLENBY'S ARMY H NEAR TO JERICHO jljl LONDON, Fob. 21. Foremost in to- H day's war news was an official state- H ment from the British war offlco that ill tho army under G'onoral Allonby has Jjr advanced to within four miles of Jor- liuS icho. jB The advanco was made by tho Brit- Ish army In Paleatlno in tho face of H a heavy rainstorm. It was three and J!H a half miles deep on a front of almost i'B eight miles. H To the north of Jerusalem tho Brit- ' !; ish also pushed forward to the depth tin of a mile. Wja |