THE PALESTINE CAMPAIGN
Events Moving Rapidly SMART CAVALRY ACTIONS. LONDON, October 5. Mr W. T. Massey,. telegraphing! from Damascus on October 2, 'says: Events move so faat in thiis caanpaigp that one cani hardly Keep abreast of them. There was a. br.illiaat piifece of fighting 1 on tihe eastern Aleppo road, which added 3000 prisoners to General Alleaby'a oa.ptures.
The Australian Light Hornet. Brigade yesterday morning advanced towards Duniiner, whence several thousand of the enemy ware retreatin.g before them. They got into an aim whore the. Germans. «>nd Turks, with machiine guns, fought a haa-d rearguard action to parmiit the main force -reaching tihe pass twenty miles nofrtheast of Damascus, where tlie crests were held) by niaohine guns. By continually .outflanking the cavalry nibbled into the position, | and made inoreasixjor cAptiu-es every | hour until" by' dusk eiight hundred , prisoners ' and eighty machine gun® had been, takeni on this road. A patrol brought- news that a. column, of three thousand mounted aien I were advpiomgl from Aleppo^ on ! Damascais, but t'hia piwed to be : tho airrival of a. (ra.mvan of enormous numbers of cam&ls fic-m Aleppo to Meoa., eeooi-t^ed by thousands *i .armed-Arabs. -
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Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13818, 7 October 1918, Page 3
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