Blake diary, 1917-1919 / Frank Blake - Page 228

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[Page 228]

clearing which is at Jericho.
The stench of the dead Horses Camels etc is very high & it is proposed to put the prisoners on the job to bury them.
Thursday Sept 26
The war is practically considered as good as finished in our sector. Numbers of prisoners came in to day and we are all on short rations owing to the prisoners having to be fed. A sorry crowd they looked. Some were mounted but the majority were in rags,
When they came near the water they simply charged at it like a lot of

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