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below us, with here & there a grey form lying on the edge of it. I hear a bullet whiz past & suddenly remember that the enemy have guns also. As I have no business xxxxx here I do not linger. It is about 4 pm and the firing continues until night fall. (The result of the m gunning our fire is that only about 300 ^of the enemy got away that night & these were are caught early next morning. ^The remainder weare killed or taken prisoner captured. (The next day, the road shows a veritable shambles. About 400 hundred dead are counted. Motor drivers are found sitting there dead clutching their steering gear & ^we see a dead ^Syrian girl was found in a in a Gharrie. Scores of the wounded have crawled away & died each side of the road.) The uninjured at the rear were taken prisoners.) We off saddle & settle down for the night. My horse has been without water all day & we discover an old well near by & take our horses to water