The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-23
Allied Forces in Holy Land
Make Short Work of En-
emy in Sixty Mile
Advance.
TAKE $4,000 PRISONERS
British Troops Cross Arnnageddon
Battlefield and Occupy Fa-
nous City Of
Nazareth.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
LONDON, Sept. 23-Two entire
Turkish armies have been practically
wiped out In Palestine, It was Off
oIaIIy announced today.
"The Seventh and Eighth Turkish
armies have virtually ceased to
exist" the statement said. "TheIr
entire transport Is ours"
More than 25,o0o prisoners and 26o
guns had been counted by eight p.
m. Sunday. Many were still un-
counted.
"Having seized the passages Of the
Jordan at Jisreddanlr Sunday morn
Ing, the last avenue of escape for the
enemy west Of the river Is closed"
the statement said.
rUnited Press Leased Wire Service ]
LONDON, Sept. 23.-Allied forces
operating in Palestine have wiped out
pra ctically an entire Turkish army,
capturing more than $4,000 prisoners
and inficting heavy casualties.
Nazareth (where the Angel Gabriel
appeared before the Virgin Mary to
announce the conception OF Chr1st)
has been occupied and the famous
battlefield of Armageddon has been
trayersed by British cavalry, in pur-
suit Of the fleeing remnants OF the
Turkish army.
At the same time allied troops in
Macedonia have reached the Uskup-
Salonika railway at Dem1rkapou
Pass, thirty-six miles east Of Pril1p,
cutting this line of communication
which supplies the Bulgarian army
in the Lake Doiran region. Other
troops have captured and passed to
the north of the important town Of
Kavadar, ten miles west and north
of the Demirkapou defle.
On the west front British troops
Yesterday improved their position
near Villers-Guislan. between Cam
brai and ST. Quentin and in the neigh
borhood of Zillebeke, southeast OF
Ypres.
German raids and local attacks in
other sectors we're repulsed.
The latest reports from Palestine
show that British troops have ad-
vanced more than sixty miles since
their drive began Thursday. The
main infantry body Saturday was on
a line running east and west through
Samaria, forty miles north of Jerusa,
lem The cavalry has progressed
northward to the region of the Sea OF
Galilee and has occupied Nazareth,
thirty miles north Of Samaria. Other
cavalry detachments are operating
southwest of Nazareth from the Jor-
dan river westward and driving iso-
lated Turkish detachments oouthward
toward the main British force or
eastward toward the Arabs, who are
co-operating with the British east OF
the Jordan.
The British advance, In which
French units are also cooperating
has been attended by Insignificant
losses. In addition to the great haul
of prisoners, 120 guns have been cap
tured.
The Bulgarians and Germans are
throwing reinforcements into the
Macedonia fighting in an effort to
hold the Serbians, British, French,
Greeks, Italians, and Czecho-Slovaks,
but the allied offensive continues
without any sign of abatement
Czecho-Slovaks troops defeated the
Austrians in an attack by the latter
against the Dissalte salient on the
Italian front.
American troops made three sue
cessful raids on the Metz front Sun
day morning taking number of
prisoners and inflicting considerable
losses on the Germans.
Last Avenue of Escape.
LONDON, Sept. 23.-The last ave-
nue. of escape for the Turks west of
the Jordan has been closed through