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File 705/1916 Pt 1 'Arab revolt: reports' [471r] (489/494)
The record is made up of 1 item (226 folios). It was created in 1916. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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^ ^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-orarily withdrawn from work in ether quarters*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
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