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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 282, 7 May 1915, Page 6

Wild! till' attack on the Suez Canal was launched there was yieat rejoicing ill Palestine, and yUiwiiif? reports' as to the do:njrs of the troops were circulated eaiiv, :-:ik[ Mr. John Meerman, au Australian, who escaped from Jerusalem »I«-*Mllnjr six months in miserv and terror for his and his family's Jives. Holidays were declared, and tile school children marched through the streets, which were draped with llags, when it was announced tliat the eanal was captured ami the British were in full retreat. When it was Riven out that K;».vpt had taken sides with Turkey, and had killed every Ally subject within her borders, there was another occasion fov; great rejoicing. The people went wild, and the gaolers forgot to feed the prisoners. A donkey, a pig ami a dog, bearing respectively the llritish, -Russian and .French Hags, were marched about to be beaten, kicked and spat upon. It did not seem possible that the news {riven out was true, although the papers were full of it. ] was not surprised to learn afterwards liow the people had been deluded.