The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1916-10-05

venture and when the English branch
of the Y. NJ. c.. A. began sending out
-men to the various army fronts he
and Rhodes scholar from Ohio vol
unteered. They we're the only Ameri-
cans, to go with the company sent to
Egypt. He remained there until
June, when he started on his return
to America
The steamer the party shipped on
was a slow one and it took quite a
time to reach Egypt. On the way the
vessel was stopped by French cruis-
er and after the officer had inspected
the ships papers he casually remark
ed that they had better be bit care
full as five ships had been sunk there
within the last day or two by Ger
man submarines. s'This caused some
thing of a panic," Mr.. Hubbell re-
marked, land many of the men were
so frightened that they slept out on
deck. Life preservers were. placed
over their. overcoats: Perhaps
should have said they intended sleep
ing out on deck but by 10 O'Clock
all were so nearly frozen that they
were glad to turn" in with the rest
of US. There was little or no excite
ment otherwise on the trip over to
Egypt.
eve spent some time in Alexan-
dria, Cairo, and other of the large
Egyptian cities, but soon found our
selves on the Suez canal, where the
main body of the British force was
stationed. Australian troops and
some New Zealanders were also on
hand.
ssAt the time the British had a
force approximating 100000 men
in Egypt, but when I left in June
there were hardly more than 100000
there
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Mr. T1uUuSll WdS QuOSIlouoo 1o ~
the attitude of the natives to the
troops of the allies and remarked:
cat first they were rather bitter, I
might say very bitter, to the English,
but the great number of soldiers
necessarily brought in considerably
large amount of money. and trade
was soon brisk and the, natives are
fond of trading. They ask one a
high price for. an article and never
expect to receive the amount they
first ask.
"My personal opinion is that the
tremendous number of English SOL
diers continuously coming and going
did more to impress upon the natives
the uselessness of rebelling than any
thing else. Skirmishes were fire.
quently had with Arabs by patrols.
But one action was engaged in while
I was there, but I see where they
have had some real fighting since
then.
''The English aeroplane scouts re-
ported that no Germans, or Turks,
were within one hundred and fifty
miles of the canal. The next day a
regiment of about one thousand men
were sent to take town, about
twelve miles distant. They were
surprised by the Germans and Turks
and but few of the English survived.
The Turko-German forces shelled the
town, killing all the cavalry horses
and then attacked. A larger force
was dispatched and the Germans and
Turks were finally driven off.
"Soldiers on the canal, however,
were very impatient and anxious for
a change. They wanted to get into
France, where ther was real fighting.
Where they were there was little but
sand and with no cities or amuse-
ments the times were dull.
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exactly like that which is being done
on the Mexican border for the United
States soldiers. Reading rooms were
equipped and opened to the men, sta
tionery furnished and religious meet
ings held. Tea, cakes, rolls and such
dainties were also cooked by the Or
ganization and sold to the men. The
rations of the of the soldiers consist
of bread, canned beef, jam, tea and
sometimes cheese This three times
a day, as you can readily imagine
becomes quite monotonous.
Eight Times as Many.
"When we first arrived at the canal
there were but three of these Y. NJ
n ctotione and had letter from