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aeroplanes and they have done their work well. Motor car horse, mule & bullock wagons lie there in shapeless heaps. Some of the drivers have not had time to leave their vehicles & lie in huddled heaps amongst the wreckage. Some of them have tried to escape to the hills but the deadly machine Guns were have been too quick for them & they lie dotted all around. Now & again we ^see the limbs of some of them quiver & contort in their final agony. Here & there a little group of poor wounded wretches are huddled together waiting for an ambulance which will be is following us behind. For 8 or 9 miles the road was is strewn with corpses. We are collecting prisoners as they we go & once including a Turkish offer & a doz men with four machine guns surrendered to us . About midday a British 'plane