File 705/1916 Pt 1 'Arab revolt: reports' [‎414r] (375/494)

Miscellaneous Information*
considerable progress has been made on the railway South of
Beersheba recently*
For six miles the railway is being used for traffic. On Ilth
February the permanent way was ready for rails from railhead to
ti/adi irtaba; there was a blank space for two miles; then an
embankment almost to asluj* Some camps at Beersheba had been
struck* and new camps had appeared at asluj and Khal&sa;
presumably these were only changes in the ouarters of the men
working on the lines* On 20th February railhead was reported
to have reached 2 iiles bouth of imfcwj*
Though Uriere are large stores of grain at Damascus* great
distress is reported still from the Syrian coast* and in the
Lebanon*