PALESTINE.
ENEMY COLUMN CAP TUBED New York, Oct 3. The Australians captured an entire Turkish column north-east of Damascus and made 1500 prisoners.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. DAMASCUS LEFT IN PEACE. London, Oct. 3. A Palestine official report states: Australian mounted men entered Damascus on the night of Monday, and at 6 o'clock in the morning the city was occupied by the British and a portion of the Arab army under King Hussein. Over 7000 prisoners were taken. ' After the surrender, excepting necessary guards, all the Allied troops were withdrawn from the city, and, for the present, the local authorities aro responsible for its administration. —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuter. Received Oct. 4, 7.45 p.m. London, Oct. 3. A Palestine communique states: The I Australian mounteds, on October 2, captured a column of tlie enemy in the vicinity of Kubbetaisafir, seventeen miles north-west of Damascus, prisonering I 1500, and capturing two guns and forty machine guns. Aeroplanes heavily bombed the enemy and the aerodrome and railway establishments at iiayah.—Aus. and N.2. Cable Assoc. and Rcutcr.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 October 1918, Page 5
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