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Had a look round Gaza today. The town which we had to make three costly attempts before it fell. It is nothing but a mass of ruins the result of the constant shelling by monitors off the coast & our heavy artillery. The Minaret which the Artillery spared on account of it being a place of worship by the Mohammedans was found to have been used for observation purposes. A large shell we found was lying at the foot of the Altar & unfortunately failed to explode. Had it exploded it would have blown the Minaret to
-. There was hardly one building, House or Hovel which had not been

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