Capitolo 27
found currency of paper.
Beersheba, a prosperous city of the ancient province of Idumea was the
southern base of operations for the advance on Suez. Some of ours
inhabitants of a village had been expeditious to this district, and, in to look for me to them,
it had the opportunity to see at least the taking-by place of the
consignment. Over this point any Hebrew or to the Cristiano it was permitted to pass,
with the exception of the physicians, everything of whom were not-Moslem
who had been forced the army.
Beersheba was swarming with troops. They filled the city and they flooded
above to the sands out, where a great curtain-city grew. And everywhere
what the Turkish soldiers went, disorganization and the ineffectiveness
continue with them. From everything on the country the most excellent camels had been
"requisitioned" and it sent down to Beersheba up to that, to the duration that I was
there, thousand and thousand of them were picked in the
district. Through the idleness and the stupidity of Turkish
official of commissariat that was able any amount of German efficiency
counterattacks, any suitable provision was built to feed them, and
unbelievable numbers succumbed to hunger and the negligence. Them great
carcasses punctuated the sand in all the directions; it was only the marvelous one
the antiseptic power of the Oriental sun that has contained pestilence in control.
The soldiers themselves suffered from a lot of work. The overcrowding in the
curtains were inexpressible; almost the water-provisioning was as inadequate as the
medical service that mainly consisted of Red and spontaneous Crescent
society--among them an unity of winds German nannies sent by the
The American university to Beirut. Medical provisionings, as them it was, it had
state taken from the different hospitals of mission and pharmacies of
Palestine--these "questions" that they are served as officers that they didn't know anything
of requisite physicians and it picked up together simply all in sight.
Accordingly, one of the physicians of army told me that in Beersheba he had