The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-01

this fell into the hands Of incompetent Turks
 Colonel won Kresz was the leading spirit in all endeavors to improve the condition of the Turkish armies in Pal estine. As I afterward discovered. he had better idea of the troubles ant anxieties of the local headauarters than the gentlemen in constantinople The latter had far too optimistic an idea of the situation and communicated to their general staff
 The authorities in Constantino1,is gradually came round to the idea strensthenihg the Palestine front but noN thought or achieving that objeci Dy an offensive. The operation agains Bagdad was ingloriously consigned tr the waste paper basket. and an attack Tn Palestine substituted for it. The army group headquarters of Won Fal
 AenhaSn was brought to this theatre
 'ALLENBY'S A GREAT VICTORY
 m view of the poor communication and the condition. of the Turkish troons Colonel won kresz had doubted the pos slollity of their taking the offensive and events proved that he was riebt
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 At the end of August large masses of 1 hhgllsh cavalry advanced on ReArsheb so as to work round the left fIanL of me Gaza front and reach the wate supply of Jerusalem. This enterpris. laned. as did others on October ans iS' Not till November 9 did the Enc llsh succeed in capturing Beersheba simultaneously, with the assistance of the fleet they attacked Gaza
 The Turkish army was forced to re- tire and was drawn up on the line Ia if Ia-Heoron-Dead sea in order to protect jerusalem The English army followed slowly On the 17th it took Jaffa and deployed strong forces toward ,rernsa- ,1 iem as well. On this line the Turks dld not fight 1t out but fell back to a position south of Nablus. between the sea and the Jordan. English troops occupied Jerusalem on December q HAD LITTLE HOPE FOR TURK 2 The Turkish army had suffered heavy losses. tThe British had taken more than 5000 prisoners) Its ability to of fer further resistance could only he considered slight. However, the Ger man Asiatic corps arrived in Palestine by degrees and gave our ally some stiffening.
 greatly Ii h. fluenced the attitude of the Arabs. who sided more and more with England.
 After occupying Bagdad the English extended the area under their control further up the Euphrates and Tigris. Tn October they held the line Rama dieh-Samara, and in November they gained more ground toward Mosul
 On both fronts, in Palestine as in Mesopotamia. the strength of the Turks had considerably decreased. It was evident that the position there could only be maintained by means of fur ther achievements
 The Russo Turkish front continued inactive. At my request. Enver was going to send endorsements from there to Mesop opotam,a; but wife ther the troops ever started could not be ascer- tained.
 How he forced the disintegration of the Russian army by his advance north or Riga toward Petrograd is told by ludendorff tomorrow He also gives his impressions of what bolshevism did to Russia, and they are not at all ia vorable to the bolshevists.
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