ملف ٧٠٥/١٩١٦ الجزء ١ "انتفاضة عربية - تقارير" [و‎‎٤‎٧‎١] (٤٩٤/٤٨٩)

BMW ■■ i -ti-jsms*'-:- *‘7 ??
^ ^tch evidence as there is points to about one battalion at
Nekhi t one at Kossaima # one at Hassana, one at Arish, with about
three at Auja. There is about a division distributed over the
smaller garrisons; and another division appears to be encamped
at Beersheba, which forms the main base* The increased camps
at Beersheba are accounted for partly by the extra work being
done on the railway; for, as was said above, men have been temp-
-orarily withdrawn from work in ether quarters*
It is suggested that guns and men reported on the Palestine
Railway possibly formed part of a third division which has been
arrested on its way down*
.iRfcfir Surmlv. With regard to the water eupply. Recently there has
been heavy rain in the North; much more rain has fallen North of
Gebel Maghara than fell last year. But in the neighbourhood of