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21-12-16pickets were sent into the town & find it is deserted so far as troops are concerned though all the civilian population are carrying on just the same as usual, a good many Bedouins on camels have been rounded up during the day; At 10 oclock this morning George Shephard & Struthers were down swimming on the beach, apparently a mine had been set for bathers for after the explosion only very small portions of flesh could be found & both lads are missing, the mine may have been laid as the Turks have been led to believe that a force was to be landed here, the mine was one of the biggest I have yet heard; Had a
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