Primary tabs
Transcription
[Page 25]
& a general overhaul of our engines & deck work. The Australian hospital ship Wandilla arrived today from Turkey with returned invalid soldiers.
15.11.18
The Caladonia arrived today from the Dardanelles after taking Indian troops to man the forts & came back direct here. She is one of the P & O Transports. Good news this day re the Germans retreating everywhere & leaving all guns ammunition & war materials behind at the front & of the Kiasar having gone & abdicated to Holland also rumours re the Crown prince having been shot whilst trying to cross the Dutch frontier & escaping from Germany. Also of a great revolution in Germany & of the Rulers leaving their respectful countries & of the Socialists governing the different German states. All the Naval warlike war ships & appliances are here in Egypt very quiet since the Armistice was signed, a great change from a few weeks ago. All the hospital ships & Prisnors of war ships are exceedingly busy bringing troops that have been captured in Turkey & the whole coming back in a very poor condition.
16.11.18
In the City of Alexandria the British troops on leave of which thousands are to be seen about the streets a large number being drunk are commiting great disturbances the breaking of glass windows & doors & actually robbing several shops wholesale to the disgust of the respectable soldiers & not a single case of any trouble amongst the blue jackets of which hundreds are to be seen in the City going about peacefully. A special patrol of pickets are about