, AMAZING WELCOME. """""• I rmlc into the town -witli an armored oar officer. Tlic road was deemed unsafe 6win» to snipers in those luscious gardens surrounding Ihis fascinating and truly Oriental city. I was amazed at the'heartiness of the welcome accorded the British uniform. The people were far from taking our victory as an ordinary incident of life. They threw off their stolid exterior and received us with ecstatic joy. They closed their shops and made holiday, put on festival dress, and acclaimed the day as the greatest in the- four thousand years of the historvof 'Damascus. Onlv'lt iff British officers have as yet entered the- city, Cut each has been re-
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 December 1918, Page 8
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111Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 Taranaki Daily News, 10 December 1918, Page 8
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