Item 04: Oliver Hogue letters, 30 March 1917- 3 October 1918, 26 February 1919 - Page 9

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2/ -  an Australian  aboriginal.  In the valley of the Jordan he successfully perpetrated the following delightful joke when it was well over a hundred in the shade and no shade available he exclaimed " This .... country aint fit for  white  men to live in". I've been laughing at it ever since. Of course no white man ever did live in the Jordan Valley in mid-summer  for the reason in the EEF is that all  white  troops are to be withdrawnfrom the Valley and only the Indians and  Australians left there.

However we are now well  out of it   & have no mood  to see Jerico or Sh**et Nun***  or Nasrullah or the Dead  Sea or the Jordan again