Capitolo 25
I experiment Station, I got allowed by the _mouchtar_ to go away
Zicron-Jacob, and around the middle one of January, 1915, I put out for
Jerusalem.
To Western chins, the idea of the service Urbano and Saint as a base for modern
military operations have to be full of the incongruities. And, as a matter of
fact, it _was_ an amazing sight to see the roads packaged with
soldiers khaki-dressed and it feels the thoughtful silence of ancient walls
smashed by the accident of boots of army steel-put on. Here, for the first one
time, I saw the German officers--quantity of them. Oddly out of
put them they looked, with their color * pink-and-whiteness that any amount of heat
light of the sun could burn completely. They brought the regular German officer
uniforms, unless the _Pickelhaube_ was replaced by a khaki
sun-helmet. I was stricken from the juvenile aspect of them; many were not anything
but boys, and there were weak faces, dissolute in abundance--a fact that
you/he/she was explained later when I felt Palestine you/he/she had been the
throw-earth for young men of tall family whose parents were anxious
to have them distant as removed as possible from the danger zone. Fast
Hotel was the great reunion-place to Jerusalem for these young bloods.
Every evening thirty or forty are able there foregather to drink and to speak
women and the strategy. I remember well the evening when one of them--a
slender Prussian youth without back to his/her head, braceleted and
monocled--the rose and it announced, in the decisive tones with which you/they go a
certainly stage of the drunkenness: "Thing we should do it is to give on the
organization of this country to Thomas Cook & Sons!"
However, the German officers were from anybody means all the incompetents. Them
inclusive (I founded out soon) that they had small hope to bring a great
army through the Egyptian desert and making a country succeeded there.
Their object was to immobilize a great strength of British troops around
the Channel, to hold the Moslem population in Palestine thrilled with
To be able Turkish, and to mix on religious nervousness among the natives in