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1915Dec. 25 Sat.Considerably more cheerful than last Xmas Day spent on Troopship in Indian Ocean - Palace very well decorated & plenty of jollification (some of it rather boozy).Gifts were distributed. Practically nothing else but tobacco & cigarettes – no earthly use.Had a very merry dinner in the Sergeant's Mess in the evening.Escaped early from the Dinner & went into Cairo. Town crowded with troops (some the worse for booze). A few rowdy chaps pinched a motor car & burnt it in the street while others sacked some houses of ill fame & threw furniture etc. into the street. Plenty of military police but no use at all. Pretty disgusting.
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