The Archive · 1941

Indescribable Spectacle

The railway station throughout the day presented an indescribable spectable, being crowded with liter ally thousands of Arabs boarding, special and ordinary trains on which it was impossible to make any normal reservations, Owing to the structure of native houses, which are mostly mud and bricks, bombs caused great havoc, especially as the poorer quarter is ready have been washed up on the Turkish const, It is possible that a small Turkish' motorboat carrying oil between two Turkish" ports which sank suddenly near the mainland opposite Cyprus might have struck tone of the loose mines, Some citoles hold that the mining indicates a coming German attack on

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