WAR ON IN CITY OF SCISSOR STAR

Delilah, Who Cut Tresses of Late Mr. Samson, Lived in Captured Town. A TYPICAL ARAB VILLAGE

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London, Dec. 15.—Until the capture of Beersheba and Gaza, the largest and most important village in Palestine, the British expeditionary force had hitherto occupied Kara Yunis, says the Manchester Guardian’s correspondent with the Egyptian forces.

The name translated becomes simply John’s Tavern, and here there must have been from of old a halting place on the great caravan route from Egypt to Syria. The village lies midway between Rafa, our border town, and Gaza, separated from the sea by two or three miles of rolling sand dunes.

Around it on every side is a belt of trees and orchards a mile or more in depth, and the water which makes possible this sudden blossoming of the plain is pumped from ancient wells lying in the midst of its lands.

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"WAR ON IN CITY OF SCISSOR STAR," The Star Press, 16 December 1917. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1917-011. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1917-011