Capitolo 26
Egypt. You/he/she must be admits that in the first two of these purposes of theirs
you/he/she has been successful.
The Turks were less perspicacious. They firmly believed that they was
going to sweep the English by the face of the earth and to digitize Cairo in
triumphs and preparations for March on Suez went above with feverish
enthusiasm. The ideas of the common soldiers on this subject were
having a good time. Some of theirs declared that the Channel would have been filled above by the
pouches of sand that had been prepared in the great quantities. Others contained that
thousand of camels it would be kept without water for a lot of days to precede
the attack; then the thirsty animals, when it released, it would dress again wicker in the
To provide of channel * in such numbers on which the troops could march to the victory the
masses packaged of drowned bodies.
The army that operates against Suez approximately numbered one hundred and fifty
thousand men. Of these approximately winds thousand were Anatolian
Turkish--he/she trained soldiers, material of splendid fight as you/he/she had shown from
their resistance to the Dardanelles. The rest is Arabic Palestinian,
and very inferior troops that they was. The Arab as a soldier immediately is
stupid and astute: fierce when victory is on its side, but unreliable
when things go against him. In command of the consignment the famous one was
Djemal Pasha, a Young general Turkish of awful energy, but possessing
the small ability to see over details to the great one, wide concepts of
strategy. Even if a great friend of Enver Pasha, he looked with
disfavor on the German officers and, particularly, on Bach Pasha, the
German governor of Jerusalem, with whom he had serious disagreements.
This antipathy of the Germans was reflected among the Turkish young person
official. Many of these, after long years of service, it was found
subordinated to the young foreigners that, further to arbitrary
promotion, received many salaries taller than the Turks. What is more,
they was paid in the gold of clinking, while the Turks, when paid at all,