Capitolo 17
it was to serve in the _taboor amlieh_, or working body. The object of
this action, clearly enough, it was to reconcile and to adulate the
Moslem population, and to the same duration to put the Hebrews and
Cristiano that to a large extent they favored the cause of the Allies in a
position where the least dangerous ones they would be them. We was unarmed; our
uniforms were brought away, and we became "banished hard-checked." I am able
you never forget the humiliation of that day when us that, everything, was later
the troops good-disciplined of the destiny, our job of before had herded to
resourceful wheelbarrows and spades that handle, sneering Arabs the rifle on
shoulder. We had put to building the road between Saffed and Tiberias,
on the Sea of Galilee--a connection in the military public road from Damascus to
the coast that would be used for the movement of troops in case the
railroad should be cut the road. It didn't have carrying strategic and immediate on the
attacks against Suez, however.
From six in the morning up to seven we was hard at night to him, except
for rest of a times to midday. While we had money, it was possible to get
some disdain the relief from bribing our executives; but this came soon a
ends, and we had to bear their brutality as best we was able. The
wheelbarrows that we have used were the ownership of a French society that,
in front of the war, you/he/she was undertaking a public road to Beirut. Any fat was
provided that for the wheels, so that there was a screaming that it exasperates and
screaming besides the difficulty to push the wheelbarrows. One day
I suggested to an officer of inspection that if the wheels were greasy
the aces would be it burned out. He agreed with me and issued an order
what the men were to offer their his/her own oil to lubricate the wheels!
I won't think the physical sufferings that we have suffered while he/she is working
on this road, for the reason that the conditions that I have described were
common on the whole country; and later, when I had the opportunity