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QUARTERLY REVIEW

No. 455

APRIL, 1918

I. Eton: the Old and the New.
II. Belgium and Luxembourg, 1831-1839.

By H. E. Luxmoore By Prof. H. Vander Linden. (With Map) III. National Churches and National Life.

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XV. The Course of the War. By Colonel Blood (With Map) XVI. Greece and the Balkan Settlement. By Principal Burrows

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between the railway and the coast; and the pursuit of the detachment which retreated towards Hebron, involving, as it would have done, a divergent advance, does not appear to have been pressed. It is probable that the detachment in question, or the greater part of it, was attracted to the principal area of operations; for the occupation of Hebron, on Dec. 6, and the advance to Bethlehem on the following day, appear to have been effected without difficulty. On Dec. 8 a general attack was delivered against the positions encircling Jerusalem from south to north-west. Our troops established themselves across the Shechem road, and a force advancing north-eastwards from Bethlehem cut the road to Jericho. Jerusalem, being thus isolated, was surrendered by the Turks on Dec. 9.

On Dec. 27 the Turks, with German assistance, made a determined effort to recapture Jerusalem by an attack in force against our positions on, and west of, the road to Shechem, with the object, apparently, of breaking through to the railway, and thus isolating the right wing of the army. After a prolonged struggle in front of our main line of defence, the attacking force, said to number two army-corps, was thrown back in confusion by a timely counter-stroke against its right flank. A general advance was then begun on a wide front, which, by the end of the month, brought our troops to a line embracing Ras Arkhub es Suffa, Burkah, the road junction at Bireh, and Janiah. In the meantime the passage of the Auja had been forced in the sector adjoining the coast, and Et Tineh, Rantieh, Mutebbis, Sheikh el Ballutah, and El Jelil had been occupied. Over 11,000 prisoners, 99 guns, and large quantities of ammunition and other material, were captured in the course of the operations.

Mesopotamia.

After the capture of Ramadiyah (Sept. 29), which deprived the Turks of their advanced base of operations on the Euphrates, the operations in Mesopotamia were directed to making the situation north of Baghdad similarly secure. The Turkish force on the Tigris was defeated on Nov. 5 at Tekrit, where large depôts were destroyed. Meanwhile the region of Deltawa had been

cleared of the enemy, who retreated across the Diala at Kizil Robat to a position in the hills east of the river. Their forces in the Jebel Hamrin, west of the river, were subsequently attacked, on Dec. 3, in conjunction with a Russian column which operated on the east bank, and were forced to retreat beyond Kara Tepeh, twenty-five miles north of Deli Abbas on the Kifri road. The army has had to lament the loss of the talented Commander who let it so often to victory. Sir Stanley Maude succumbed to cholera on Nov. 18.

The Russian Front.

On the eastern front there has been no operation of importance except the occupation by the Germans of the islands which enclose the Gulf of Riga on the northwest; an enterprise which, as it encountered but feeble resistance from the disorganised Russian forces, possesses little interest from the military point of view. A powerful squadron, comprising ten battleships, ten cruisers, fifty destroyers, and eight or ten submarines, convoyed the fleet of transports, and covered the disembarkation of the land force, which consisted of two divisions. The Russian Baltic Fleet made no attempt to interfere; and, the shore batteries having been silenced, the landing was quickly effected on Oct. 12, at Tagga Bay, on the north-west shore of Oesel Island. By the evening of the 17th Oesel had been completely occupied ; the remains of the two Russian divisions which formed the garrison had been driven across the mole to Moon Island, where they surrendered on the following day; and the German fleet had defeated and dispersed the inferior force opposed to it. Dagö and Schildau were occupied a few days later; and a force was landed on the mainland near Verder, but was subsequently withdrawn. The Germans claimed 20,000 prisoners, 100 guns, and a large quantity of material.

With the seizure of power by the Maximalists, early in September, any hope that the Russian Army might again become an appreciable factor in the military situation disappeared. As the result of a conference at Brest Litovsk, an armistice was agreed upon between German and Russian Representatives, which was to run from Dec. 17 till Jan. 14, and to continue indefinitely, subject

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