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occupation some 1500 years ago. The whole ground was honeycombed with tombs, and the trenches wer in many cases cut through the old graves, for every now & again human bones, sometimes very well preserved. As a rule, however, time did not permit of these being properly explored, but a number of porcelain beads, a do porcelain doll or two, and a few human teeth were carted away as relics.
4th April 1915. Friday night saw a serious note in Cairo, particulars of which are being based on heresay, are rather fragmentary. As far as can be judged, the trouble began as usual in the demimonde under world, and a crowd of some hundreds of soldiers, for what reason goodness only knows, commenced to wreck some houses. Wardrobes came crashing through windows some stories up & smashed in the street below, bedsteads, furniture of all sorts all came hurtling down, and were piled in a heap on in the centre of the street. This was then set on fire & the fire brigade was called out.