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of invading Egypt, if this is a fact they show their good sense. from what I saw of the canal it would not be a nice place for a hostile army to bump up against.
The New Zealanders hold the suez end of the canal on this side & Indian troops stretch from them to port said on both sides. I don't think we will be wanted there it is thought the the first 4 Batt will eventually go to France. I hope so as we will follow them I am thinking we will be here for a good while yet. But one can't tell.
We were told it all dependend on ourselves whether we went to the front or not at present we are only a depot rank We were also told that the first mob have a very bad name in Cairo they seem to have gone mad when they got here about 200 hundred are being sent back and others will follow. these chaps are a wild lot when they start. Some of the terriors found a new Zealander not far from here out in the desert with his throat cut he was not dead but I believe he pegged out later very probably he was to blame these natives wont be fooled about with. This happened on the 5th I have had one trip to cairo & don't think much of it, walked about every where we could the native quarter is a horrible place the streets are like dimly lighted tunnels & only a few feet wide I should like to have all day in the city but that is impossible under the circumstances we are allowed [indecipherable] of leave each [indecipherable] which means leave about every week for us we are supposed to get away at 2 oclock but the head men are don't trouble themselves about getting the passes ready till all hours of the evening. I went over to Heliopolis yesterday evening the town is quite close. it is a very flash place & has some very fine buildings. One place built for a hotel