Freeport Journal-Standard · Freeport, Illinois · 4 March 1918
CP-1918-002
British Forces Capture Nablus
United Press Leased Wire, London
Transcribed from the clipping
“London, March 4.—Astride of the westward road leading from Jerusalem to Nablus, Gen Allenby’s forces advanced a maximum depth northward of three thousand yards on a 12 mile front Saturday and Sunday, it was officially announced today. The enemy offered little opposition. Nablus, 33 miles north of Jerusalem is a city of about 25,000 population.
It is the ancient center of the Samaritans and in biblical times was called Shechem. Jacob’s well was located nearby.”
Context added by this archive
The headline says the city was captured. The story says the line moved three thousand yards toward a city thirty-three miles away, and the paragraph under it gives Nablus a population of twenty-five thousand.
Cite this clipping
"British Forces Capture Nablus," Freeport Journal-Standard, 4 March 1918, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1918-002. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1918-002
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