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Show JERUSALEM. SMILES . AND IS CONTENTED LONDON. Feb. 2-t. "Jerusalem today ip smiling and con ten. ted." says a. letter from an ofticer in the British forces there. "Food supplies are not abundant, but they are sufficient. Affluent people never were in want, but during the war .prices went up so high and the paper money was at such a discount 1 hat the poor suffered greatly, and there were actually many deaths from slow starvation. starva-tion. "Conditions have now undergone a remarkable re-markable change. We are giving employment em-ployment to all the men in road making at ample rates of pay. Even the your.e boys assist at the llcbt work and at meal times whole families join the 1 menfolk at their meals by the roadside. "One of the reasons for the high prices of foodstuffs was that the Turkish offi -cers were all speculating. They bought wheat and flour from their military depots, the cost being debited against their pay. which was paid in paper. Then they sold the supplies for gold, which was wortli five times more than paper. When Turkish evacuation seemed imminent, these officers all had to unload, and prices fell considerably." |