Capitolo 31
DRAWING RECENTLY CUT TREES, DAMASCUS]
We felt there sure that the Turkish defeat would have damped the joy of the arrogance
of the soldiery. But the Moslem population was also hoping that the
Allies would push their victory and troops of earth in Syria and Palestine;
for although they hated the atheist, they didn't love Turkish to everybody, and
the country was exhausted and the block of the Mediterranean from the
Allies prevented the importation and they export of articles. The oranges were
to decompose himself/herself/themselves on the trees because the market of annual Liverpool was closed
Palestine, and the other crops were in similar case. The country was short,
also, of oil, sugar, laughed, and the other provisionings, and also of matches.
We had to go up again to the old customs and flint of use and to cover of steel for fire, and
we rarely used our lamps. Also, money it was scarce and, Turkey having
declared a moratorium, money it was not often also obtainable from those that had
money in the banks, and a lot of anguish achieved.
As the defeated army was pouring in from the south, me decided to go away
Beersheba and it goes home. The roads and the fields were covered with dead
camels and horses and mules. In hundreds of soldiers you/he/she was dispersing himself/herself/itself in
disorders, very of them on permission but many that abandon. Soon after the
defeats to the Channel that many thousand soldiers have abandoned, but an amnesty
it was declared and they returned to their regiments.
When I arrived to Jerusalem I found the city filled with soldiers.
Djemal Pasha is returned as soon as from the desert, and its quarters were
protected by a battery of two guns of field. Nobody knew what to wait him; some
he/she thought that the country would have had a few more liberties now that the
soldiery had lost his/her boasting, while others were waited for the anarchy
that frequents disorganization. I went to see Consul Glazebrook. He is a
true American, a Southerner previously a teacher of the theology to