Tags
1916, 1918, Amman, Bapaume, Battle of the Somme, communications, Es Salt, First Battle of Bapaume, First Transjordan attack on Amman, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hejaz, Noyon, Oise, Operation Michael, Ottoman Empire, Palestine, Peronne, prisoners of war, railway, Somme, Turkey, weapons
Heavy fighting between Péronne and Bapaume; enemy, pressing on over Somme battleground, reach, near Maricourt, their original line of July, 1916; 45,000 prisoners and over 600 guns claimed to date; Noyon in the Oise Valley evacuated by the French, who hold the left bank of the Oise. British take Es Salt and progress towards the Hedjaz Railway at Amman.