[3] High explosive.
[4] Westlake's. See next chapter.
II[ToC]
HARBE
Behold, as may unworthiness define,
A little touch of Harry in the night.
King Henry V.
If I thought Hell was worse than Mesopotamia, I'd be a good man.—Sayings of Fowke.
Next morning was one of leisure. The 19th Brigade took up our line, and we bivouacked before the station. We fed and washed and slept. The enemy put a few shells on to the 19th Brigade, doing no damage, and when that Brigade pushed on to Harbe he fell back on his strong lines at Istabulat, another four miles. The 19th Brigade, with only one or two men wounded, seized Harbe and twenty-four railway-trucks, which were of great assistance presently, when the mules drew them along the track with ammunition for the assault on Istabulat.