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General Allenby in Palestine, having occupied Es Salt, on the

plateau east of the Jordan, on March 25th, sent his Colonial mounted troops towards Amman to make a raid on the Hedjaz Railway. Amman proved to be strongly defended. The cavalry therefore did not press the attack, but spent some days in damaging the railway. Several miles of track and an important bridge were destroyed. The enemy's communications with his garrisons further south were thus interrupted. The cavalry returned to Es Salt on Monday with seven hundred prisoners and four captured guns. While his extreme right flank was thus being secured, General Allenby advanced his left centre on March 28th for two miles in the foothills between the Ramleh-Nablus Railway and the Jerusalem-Nablus road.

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