The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-09-24
Turks Suffer Crushing Defeat at
Hands of General Allenby's
Army.
ADVANCES go MILES
More Than Eighteen Thousand Pris
oners Have Been Taken and Guns
In Excess of 100, as Well
as Other Booty.

London, Sept. 24.-Twenty-f1ve
thousand Turkish prisoners and
go guns had been counted up to
Sunday evening by General Allen
by's forces pushing northward
through Palestine, according to an
official statement issued by the
wal office. The war office an
nouncement says that the Seventh
and Eighth Turkish armies have
virtually ceased to exist. The en-.
tire transport of these two armies
was captured by the British.
London, Sept. 24.-The Turks in
Palestine and the Bulgarians and their
allies in Macedonia are being put to
the test, while the front In France is
comparatively quiet. But nowhere
thus far have they been able to hold
back, or even counteract the on.
slaughts OF their foes. British caval-
ry has advanced so miles west of the
Jordan.
In Palestine the Turks seemingly are
in the process of being crushed. In
Macedonia the Allied forces are driv-
ing sharp wedges for considerable dis
tances into the enemy fronts.
In France and Flanders where there
has no been any fighting rising in i'm
portance above patrol encounters, the
British, French and American troops
have kept the upper hand and ad
vanced their respective lines.
Nazareth Is Captured.
OF -transcendant interest, for the mo
ment, at least. are the operations oil
the British General Allenby's forces In
Palestine.
Here in less than -four days the Brit
between the River Jordan and the sea
and taken the famous Nazareth, while
their wings closed round in q swift
enveloping movement and nipped with
in the jaw of the great pincers all the
Ottoman forces in the coastal sector,
the plain of Sharon, the hill region in
the center and also the Western Jor.
dan valley.
Meanwhile to the northeast, the
friendly Arab forces of the king OF
the Hedias have cut all railway com
munication in front of the fleeing
Turks and are standing a barrier to
their escape by way of the eastern
plains.
More than $4,000 Turks have been
made prisoner by the British and guns
in excess of 100 had been counted when
the last reports from General Allenby
were received. In addition great guam
titles of war stores had been captured
and still others had not been counted
owing to the rapidity of the move
ment.
Many More Turks Taken.
1t is not improbable that within the
bag, the strings of which have beer
drawn taut, closing the mouth, thou
sands of Turks are enmeshed. Many
of those already made prisoner, fleeing
in disorder, literally walked into the
hands of the British, not knowing
their lines Of retreat had been cut off
Although the Turks at some points
offered considerable resistance to the
British, at no point were they able ia
stay the advance, yer on the famous
field Of Armageddon, which the Brit
lsh cavalry swept across and occupied
Nazareth to the north. In the opera
ton of sewing the enemy within the
sack airmen played an important role
vigorously bombing the r~etreatine
Turks, iniicting enormous casualties
on them. The losses of General Allen
by are described as slight, in com
parison with the importance OF the
movement carried out.
In Macedonia, the Italians have join
ed In the fray with the British, French,
Serbian and Greek troops and r hard
after the Bulgarians and their allies.
who are being driven northward
through southern Serbia. Between the
Cerna and Vardar rivers, although the
Buigarians and Germans are sending
up reinforcements, the allied troops
have continued their pressure.