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rifles & bayonets etc. we stopped halt for an hour by a stream at Sara. I have a pint of hot tea & some good old B & B which puts new life into me. Off again at 9 am & we learn that our next objective is Damascus. (Damascus lies on a plain surrounded by bare hills.) After a while we leave the road & travel through the stony ploughed fields at the foot of the hills. On our right lie the outskirts of Damascus. Amongst the green trees lies a small white village & as we get on a line with it enemy machine gun fire commences. I listen for the bullets but fail to hear them so they are evidently not firing at us. Suddenly our guns bark out & we watch the shells bursting in the village. A 2 storied house suddenly disappears - it is pretty shooting. Now the village is blotted out by smoke & the guns cease fire . As the smoke