ALLENBY'S ROUND UP

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 71, 18 December 1918, Page 9

ALLENBY'S ROUND UP

,''. PESCEIBBD BY A'.TBOOPEB. A Wellington member ofltlie New Zealand Mounted ■Kifles, writing from tho Rest Camp, Ferry Post, Palestine, after an' experience in- the torrid'valley of tho Jordan, says;—" The boys-of our brigade have nearly all had malaria. I can tell you we have 'had a bad time. 1 had to leave the'brigade at Jerusalem on our way back from Amman, whero you have no. doubt seen by the papers we rounded up the Turk's to some tune. We got the whole nruiy.- intact—men, transport, aeroplanes, guns, ammunition, in t'net, the.jvholo outfit, so there is ono thing—we ar'o' not sufferiiiß-this fevor for nothing, although some of our ko'ocl'lads ■have died, of,-the: fever. Our" troop of 32 was reduced to eight, and we had to bring all tho horses out of tho valley. Every.man had.three or four horses io load, as well as manage'his own. Anyhow, I got as far as Jerusalem, and was having a spell when our M.O. camo aloim nnd asked;.me wlu-it was wrong. I told him I had a bad head, and' he took my ■temperature. It registered 103. He aslced me if I could ride, and'.T-told him I could, and he sent me, away to the clearing station with malaria; 'My temperature went to-.10-l, and remained at that for two days. They had to wash me down ivith .cold water. I really thought I was going mad. Since then, however, I have cooled down, nnd feel almost ready to hop into the firinp-line once more. I think- it is the finish, of the war on this .front. .'ln fact, those who oiifjht. to know ■are of. opinion that there will not be another shot fired on this front. "I was wondering if Turkey gnvo in whether they would take us to' France to help-clonn up things there. I dnre s<l v they will take our G»n<?rnl Alleiiby away. Ffe ia a man who make's no mistnW and ■irhen be strikes be,hits Jiard! There ii; no liiistnke ho was clever t.t hi>ve broii"ht off this big 'drivfi against the Turks. JTp. lP!i them, to believe he was going to ntfnck th»ir strong position, N.->blus. The Turks flocked there, whilst nil the time our troops u-erc oreepine roiind both flanks, travelling.])}' ni.eht. In the end ■i'-n iihd Jnckn in •) romn'ote fiivlc. Tt; did not-';natte'r which way ho turned, •lacko.ha:! m»r.rin.p.s.kokin>?."nt hbn. Then hn began to get hnnirry, ns wp had cut his supplies off.: It wa« then Hint thev "-nn in by rlionsn"(ls-T , .,ri-5. Funs, nnd German nuives. One old German lmi-se rame in on her nnny. Sphip of the Aimftiiliniiß pronosed in qo[ her to pool- for ■ thpin,. but she f'Hinecl. snvimr that she was t-oinc to follow her husband, who I was a prisoner."