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From all accounts every road & railway is cut off from the Turks except the Nablus-Es Salt road & the Hedjaz [Hejaz] Railway which is off the map on the other page but which runs from Ammon [Amman] – 20 miles east of Jordan – to Damascus.
There is also I am told a line of enemy retreating from Nablus 6 miles long.
23rd Sept.
The Stunt develops apace. 22000 prisoners counted already. And since yesterday the N.Z.s & 1st Bgdes captured the only Bridge left between Nablus & Es Salt & now we have the whole Turkish Army with the exception of those across the Jordan & two battalions who escaped, surrounded close to Nablus. The prisoners who come in are in an awful state. Last night they tried to bring them in but a great number died from exhaustion on the way, & others are