Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1917 — BIG BRITISH VICTORY [ARTICLE]

BIG BRITISH VICTORY

TWENTY THOUSAND TURKS DEFEATED IN PALESTINE. ■ izr —>■' ' ; —~ London Says Staff of Eifty-Third Army Has Been Captured ill Battle Near Gaza. . London. March 30. The British army in Palestine has defeated a Turkish, army of 20,000 men. capturing 000 men. including a general, the war office announces. The entire divisional staff of the Fifty third Turkish division in Palestine has been captured by the British, it is announced officially. The official statement says that British troops haYe .advanced for a distance-, of 15 miles along the southern Palestine vcoast of the sff‘«::t> s rran";!:i. British forces have pushed forward from Rafa and the U adi Ght.tzzeh, a river five miles south of Gaza (Ghuzxeh). Gaza is 20 miles north of the Syrian boundary.