Get this lot on the run.

The less fighting, the less risk of drasticism when the French get to Damascus.

Chase 'em off home!" So Jeremy did it; and that, I believe, accounts for a story that got in the newspapers about Feisul trying to spring a surprise on the French at the last minute.

Some French officers in armored cars came over the brow of the hill in pursuit of us--three cars, three officers, three machine-guns, and about a dozen men.

One car quit on the hill-top, so I suppose it broke down, but its occupants must have seen Jeremy careering up and down the line encouraging those sulky Arabs to get a move on, and I suppose they told tales afterwards to a newspaper correspondent at the base.
Anyhow, the two pursuing armored cars didn't dare come near enough to be dangerous until we had followed the retreating Arab regiments for about a mile, and the Algerians appeared over the hill-top, coming very slowly.