ENTIRE COLUMN CAPTURED.
A,SMART ICXPLOIT. . To-day nows readied the brigade that a force was moving northwest j of Damascus, endeaivoiu^hg to p-ass-j the Aleppo- roaid. Ihe brigade gal- j loped for six miles to head the en-1 emy off, riding 1 ham to gat to the-1 baa© of tih« fooifchills before the j Turks, and captured the entire col- j umn of 1400 men, with only erne casualty. 1 In the last two days this; brigade ' took two thousand with undeir twenty casualties. The cavalry brigade was ait into two columns. Tha'Turks etidcavom'- | ing to reach. Damascus .from Dei*aa ' and the whole rsywvs driveii into the . ha'nda of watting troops , and captured. • ' The whole .operation."was•■masterly conducted.—A. and N..ZI. CiKblp. , I
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Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13818, 7 October 1918, Page 3
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120ENTIRE COLUMN CAPTURED. Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13818, 7 October 1918, Page 3
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