The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-17
british TROOPS SUFFER SMELLING
|. FROM TURK CANNON RATHER THAN
FIRE ON BETHLEHEM AND JERUSALEM
Willy FOE WORKED GUNS JUST OUTSIDE AND AGAINST
WALLS OF BOTH SACRED OLD TOWNS, BUT LONDON
ERS STORM WITH BAYONET AND SLAUGHTER
ENEMY IN LARGE NUMBERS

London Dec 17n attacks preceding the surrender of Je-
rusaem the Turks employed sormng successive
by London troops according Reuter- dispatch from British
headquarters in Palestine. The dispatch which sent by
apane gives details of the capture and the entry into Jer
salem.
The final Turkish attack preceded by such heavy
D ling that appeared the enemy confident the British
N ID be blown off summit but all their attacks
pu sanguinariy The Turks had strong line west south
and northeast of Jerusalem They well provided with
machine guns and their artillery dominated the crests over
the British should have advance Some Turkish guns
placed just outside the city walls making impossible to
the British fire these without endangering the town
"A torrena rain made the roads impassabe the cor
respondent continues while chilly wind pierced the
to the bone the problems of supply and transport al
drove despair The cames unable to keep
foohod the slippery paths Nevertheless the food and
ammunition supply was maintained a., in d, fully
On the night of December when attack began the
moved under darkness the attack pvong
Neb Samuel from which the Londoners advanced eastward
toward Jerusalem while other troops ascended the Hebron
road, threatening the town from the south.
"They found Hebron evacuated but resistance
around Bethlehem where the Turks also had posted
that cOunerbaery work would endanger the sacred village
Hence troops had the dsagreeabe experience of being
sheed without the ability to reply But they pressed forward
and by of the eighth two miles north of Bethlehem
"The Londones had hard task the steep slopes of the
udean hills where impossible bring field guns their
support but mountain batteries and howzers rendered
terrible work The Turks still held the last line the ridge
Overlooking jerusalem having posted machine
the houses of the Jewish and German coonist the far out
skirts of the town The position charged late the after
of the eighth. The magnificent feat crowned by
complete and the Turks were driven the point
he bayone The survivors boted each side of the town.
Turk Fought Desperately
Throughout the whole fighting around Jerusalem, the
Turks showed desperate spirit and greater enacity
than in almost previous fighting They stood their ground
to the last
of the city and at o'clock the morning of the eighth the
and police out with flag of truce and surrendered
the town.
Acceptance of the surrender made formally
without actually entering the city, only pckets being posted to
suburbs norhwad being subjected machine gun fire from
Scopus north of the city, sormed with the bayone The
Turks also cleared from the Mount of Olives
Great demonstrations of joy broke out when the general
take the surrender the city, flowers show
the troops and the popuace clapped their hands
testify to the joy of deverance from the hands of the
Carry Trenches With Rush.
Further north the Turks established long
trenches around the village of Bekes These trenches
carried with rush. and the British advanced beyond the vii
age Welsh troops advancing from the south pushed across
the of Jerusalem leading Jericho
Turkish renforcements advancing along this road to
nearly 1000 prisoners addition 700 wounded Turks
he successful coordination of all our movements in itself
speaks praise for the admirable staff work Of conditions
jerusalem learned that in the early days of the
aborve Turkish attacks against the Suez canal the Turkish
losses in pack exceeded neglect
Of food and overwork The people were famshed from
hunger that they used to fight for the bodies of the animals that
Populace Was Prosecuted.
Then there suspicion and Everybody
pected of sympathzng allies was imprisoned or killed
persons executed Among these the
GAIA belonging to distinguished Arab family who after an
attempt escape captured and hanged with his
gate All aged subjects away
American colony of not molesed 1t did noble
work in relieving distress aided by funds America
Recently the Germans attempted to obtain the exile of all
from Jerusalem The Turks opposed the
but number of younger males were sent to Damascus
early in November Enver Pasha he Turkish minister of
war; came Jerusalem returning Constannope
be Three days later
change made and hurried
down.