The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-09-25
$4,000 TURKS MADE
PR|SOOERS OF WAR
British Deal Smashing Blow in Drive
Through Palestine
MANY BIG GUNS CAPTURED
Aircraft Harass Ottomans, Who Es.
capped with Bombs and
Machine Guns

London, Sept. 22.-British troops in
their drive north through Palestine
already have counted $4,000 Turkish
prisoners and have collected 120 guns,
according to an official statement Civ
en- out this evening by the British war
office.
The text Of the st.'-'~ent SAYS:
"By 0 o'clock on Saturday night on
our left wing, the infantry about Bira-
fur had reached the line Beitde jan-Sa-
maria Birafur, Shepharding the enc
my on the west Of the Jerusalem-Nab-
ulus road into the arms of our cavalry,
operating southwark from Jenin and
Beisan.
"Other enemy columns vainly at
tempted to escape into the Jordan
valley in the direction of Jiar- -Ed-Da-
meer, which still held by us. These
columns suffered severely from our
aircraft whcih constantly harassed
them with bombs and machine gun
fire from low attitudes.
"In the vicinity of Lake Tiberiu
our cavalry detachments hold Naza-
reth and the rail and road passages
over the Jordan at Jier- Dancer.
"Already $4,000 prisoners have been
captured and 120 guns collected"
Earlier Report
London, Sept. 2.--British cavalry
units operating between the Jordan
and the Mediterranean, in Palestine,
have advanced somd sixty miles from
their original positions and have occu-
pied the Biblical renowned town of
Nazareth, and Afule and Belsan, ac-
cording to a British war office an
nouncement today.
20, 1Ia,,Lx,,e t~oo,>, L,,,o csc,
rounded part of the Ottoman army
and are collecting the dsorganized
masses of men and transports arriv-
ing from the south. So far 5000 pris-
oners and 100 guns have been counted.
Tho text of the statment reads:
Palestine, s p. NJ, on September
20, the enemy resistance had collapsed
everywhere save on the Turkish left,
in the Jordan valley.
"Our left wing, having swung
around to the east, had reached the
line of Bidieh, Bak and Messudieh
Junction, and was astride the rail and
roads converging at Nabulus.
"Our right wing, advancing through
different country against consider
able resistance, has reached the line
of Khan-Jizeit, one and a quarter
miles northeast of Ell Mugheir and
Els Sawieh and was facing north
astride the Jerusalem -Nabulus road
British Occupy Nazareth
"On the north our cavalry, travers-
ing the field Of Armageddon, had oc-
cupied Nazareth, Afule and Beisan
and were collecting the disorganized
masses Of enemy troops and transport
as they arrived from the south. All
avenues of escape open to the enemy,
except the fords across the Jordan, be-
tween Beisan and Jisr-Dameer, were
thus closed.
east of the Jordan Arab forces Of
the King of Hedjaz had effected nu-
merous demolitions on the railway
radiating from Deraa, several impor.
tant bridges, including one in the Yur-
max, have been destroyed.
Several days must elapse before
accurate figures Of prisoners captured
can be given out, already more than
5000 prisoners, 100 guns, large guam
titles of both horse and mechanical
transports, four airplanes, many loco
motives and much rolling stock have
been counted.
Every severe losses have been in
/ flicted on the masses of Turkish
troops retreating over the different
roads by our air services.
/ "a German airplane, later ascer-
tained to have been carrying mails,
| landed in the midst of our troop. at
Afulc. The pilot, who believed the
place still to be in Turkish hands, de-
stroyed the machine and it's contents
before he could be secured"
-W-S-S-
HERTLING NOT TO RESIGN