Capitolo 29
What happened in the attack is known to very little. The English
you/he/she has not seen the adaptation to do I publish the details, and it owed us little being
gotten by the demoralized soldiers that returned to Beersheba. Piece from
however, piece that I have gathered that the party that attaches had come on the
To provide of channel * to dawn. Finding all quiet, they put around getting through,
and you/he/she had also launched a you cross through pontoon, when the English in that you/they were lying
aspects, opened an appalling fire from the most distant bank, supported from armored
locomotives and airplanes. "It was as if the gates of Jehannum were
open and its fires left free on us", a soldier told me.
The Turks succeeded in to find their guns in action for a very short
while. One of the man-of-war in the Channel were stricken; a lot of houses in
Ismailia suffered from damage; but the invaders were away soon driven in
confusion, leaving perhaps two thousand prisoners in the hands of the
The English. If the seconds had chosen to do so, they would have been able to annihilate
the Turkish strengths then and there. The state that suffers the tickle of mind of the
However, Moslem population in Egypt has conducted them to adopt a policy
of the clemency and of custody to the defensive that subsequent
developments have more than lined up. It is characteristic of England
faculty to hold his/her colonies that batteries have equipped from Egyptians
the most excellent job in defense of the Channel.
The reaction in Palestine after the defeat to Suez was awful. Only
in front of the attack, Djemal Pasha had sent a telegram that announces the
oppressive defeat of the state-of-the-art British that had caused wild
enthusiasm. Another later telegram proclaimed that the Channel had been
arrival, sunk British man-of-war, the English addressed--with a loss to
the Turks of five men and two camels "that you/they were recovered later."
"But", it added the telegram, "a terrible sand-storm that the has risen
glorious army picks him/it up as the wish of Allah not to continue the attack,