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comfortable. I set up a helio & await orders. In the distance the ^Damascus wireless Station is on fire & one after another the two tall masts collapse. It is one of the largest wireless stations in the world & is in circuit with Berlin. We wonder what message they flashed to Berlin before they destroyed the station. We are trying to signal our Divisional Hqrs but cannot locate them - they are evidently on the move. A helio flashes away in the hills & we ask him who he is. A P Z Colonel [B?????] Force. We dont want him. The mach bullets are still spurting up the dirt behind us. Johnny now opens on us with a field gun. We cannot hea the gun & he must be firing at extreme range. I watch the shells burst & throw up a cloud of dirt & they are getting