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Leiria Mr and Mrs. J. JA}
Mr G. Little
Mr 8. Longfold Tent. J. M. Lopes Capt. R.P. Langland
Major D. Mr G. Ladin
Mr J. T. Baring Lavalloo Mr and Mrs H. A. Mias do Buangiti
Baxter Master Baxter Capt. J. Barter Mes & R Belilios Mr. R... Birbeck Mr. D. J. Bell
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HOT DAYS IN BAGHDAD burns om band in a bent. The chust and sand burst: tão soles of ona's, fees through one's boots.
""HONGKONG HOTEL. Most of the house in Baghdad are pro-Miss A. G.Anderson Miss H. de Journal Mr. G. E. Andersonifiu &; de Journal. Vided with a perdal or collar, supk me Mr Geo. S. Arhbut Dr F. T. Eest Bump September, 1917...
& feet under the ground-love?.- The teme J. E. F. Saaritsen
| Me H. Murray Bain Mr and Ms O The moment of, walking on still hotperature in the sercabs is generally 20 weather morning in Baghdad is one of degrees lower than in the rooms of the
Barbara
Mr Q. the least pleasant of the day. The air is first bar, and as is glued to escape to charged with apprehension, rast as the them. The ventilating shaft which ras AND LONDON,waising on as a dentist's is sometimes up on the cellar to the rufe end in more depressing than the mutual chair in hood-like cowls and all point the sans one submita to his soreritics way to catch the shamal, or prevailing Happily the nights are generally cool and north wind, which also conveys any tha momings irénh, however burning the alleviation that the gods may provide. days; bus when the north wind drops, or Up in Baghdad and Samara the nights worke, when there is a wouth wind bring generally bring relief, but in faara one ing up the moisture from the Gulf, it is often fidgets.restlessly through them with MH. Boylan hateful when one wakes in the morning little sleep, fighting the sundili. The Mr W. C. Browell Mr J. Mecock
Capt de la Franch Me H. van Meinen to think of the day in front of one. . F
At the end of May this year when I
official reading when I passed through Mr Callston Me A. Mouldse
Mrs CarpmaelMe S Pouris way 110 degrees six weeks earlier it hud Mr E. Cheers lalt Baghdad the mornings "well]
Mr J. 8. Nicolson tolerable, but the sun was taking hold. Bases stars most from a lazy south wind, Me D: 0. G. Clifford Capt And Me L beea 122 degree That was a dry heat. Mrs W. Clifford Hm“ J. R. Deare
Miss K. M. Clifford ·Ohlman We were all, according to the custom of the date wind of September, under which MR. R. Plunkett D'Olivey the country, sleeping on the roof. Early the crops sipen, and which rolls up the Mr F. W. Collins In April the house-tops were deserted, but hoisture from the Gulf, and then drops, in May every Baghdadi man, ecomo, or leaves a humid film in the air which
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ASCENDED TO THE HOOP TO SLEEř. When one woke in the morning bac, over- looked a sea of roofs. The well-to-do lay in four postery with mosquito curtains;
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suffocates one ke blanket until the Cox and infant Mr.G. V. Rich wind chsages.
MrW.B.Davenport Mr.L. M. Richards Ciaominess pervades Mrs J-Ki Lorbes Mr Work Robbins things seem to aweat in this air. everything.
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The best of that desert, in tante and trenches is a diferent thing. One feels as if one were standing at the edge of
in 10 large square beds like wooden plage fire in a high wind licked by gusto forms fenced with rails to prevent the maller fry from falling out. The search.
for insects that went on in the morn-
ing suggested disturbed night.
a
of Hamel buffets one.
bat in iv.
The hot air leaps up and There is an element of com The heat is fierce, not wo oppressive and depressing. It does not Infest one with the same invidios relaxa tion of fibre and spirit. Then there are the almost daily"dust storms, & undden darkness, a rustle and a shadow, a pillar of dust, spiralling and gyrating on its base, tearing acts the desert.
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MrJ. Gordon Hare Mr and Mrs A. M. Mr G. Harper Mr D. Haskell
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On one roof was a lamb; on another promenading turkey, And there w generally a stork on the neighbouring kingret standing above the head of the mezzin as he uttered Bis unll to prayers and flapping his wings in accompaniment to the man's beating of the bruket. Ona bird had est on a Christian church in use, but for a moment only. "The view and she defended it fiery against spirit that is abroad is contagious. Other
PEAK HOTEL. dignity and modesty, she would throw darkened, the heat is heavy and sullen. Mr and Mrs O. T. RA.M.O.
dust devils leap up and swirl. Soon the Then having assorted her
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That was in April and May. When I Peturned early in September the lamb and the turkey had gone: aren, the storks
whole plain is in motion.
Miss V.. Martin
Capt. & Mrs Vierio | Mr & Mrx P. W. Cary – de Mathos
Mr and Mrs F. R. Lair and Mrs G. F.
Nightingale
is a uniform deadweight support, against Mr and Mrs E. A Miss Martin
Cartwright which one feels one could put up 3 better defensive if it were supine. But the man in the office, tent, or dug-out winds and matrons and the teeming children web wwel round his bead and 254 remained: they bad apparatly increased. Plugging on with his works. I was immensely thankful that for the
had taken themarives of; but the mea
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and one can put up with a few extra degrees of temperature to be rid of the Mr and Mrs J. C. H.Major-Gen. Ventris HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK. peat.
of the panorama of Baghdad en destabile than the Turks. In the real dog days the first thing that greeted my eyes in the fly passes; it is dried and frizzled up, the morning had been a Himalayan forest.
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oppres ዝነኛ! The first 12 days of the month were 8 degrees above normal, and the atmosphere was moist pad sticky-111 degrees by the oficial reading, and 118 degrees in some of the offices and billets.
I confirm that. I did not think it possible last autumn that troops who had been through the hot weather of 1916 on the of four months experiences in the
In July the temperature had risen to winter and spring would be it for a big 122.8 degrees in Baghdad and 122 degrees offensive in the cold weather. But Use in Basta, In tents and dug-outa was Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force will often 10 degrees higher than the live in history as the most perfect example standardised official reading And I
of the British habit of logging on." gathered a goat deal of collective evidence, And now they have been through another from persons otherwise normally truthful, summer and endured the worst beat
Baghdad remembers.
야
MORZA READINGS THAN 132 DEGREES.
Hurles
Miss Ventris
Mr F. B. Johnson Mr. C. Vermanlen Mr & Mrs JouckhserLt. Col. John Ward and Mrs A. Mr. and Mrs G. *Lembelst Weston & children Kra W. G. Litt Col. Yongg, RE
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W.Budge Mr J. F. Beid But these I will not record, for it is hard great things and achieved victory out of Cheng
Richardson to believe that anything cave a Salaman adversity, Their dearest wish in that the Mrs Christiansen & Mr H. M. Sherwin der could live through auch heat. The Turks should descend and attack an. The child
Mr and Mrs Biafort Mrs. T. B.Culhane and family Baghdadis say that they have never known ecme change for the boys," says Pie. Mr O. Fritz
mance the merrier. It would be a wel Mr Finlayson Mr. M. Sleigh anything like it before. Most things were Smith to see the Terks hopping the Mr and Mrs Gregory children too hot to touch. The rim of a bumblar. parapet."
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