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Show In March of Army Across Desert Troops Kill Camels and Drink Blood. KILL GERMAN OFFICERS Losses Exceedingly Heavy Soldiers Mowed Down by British Machine Gun. London. Aug. 9, 1:10 p. m. The Turkish army which was routed by tho British at Romaui, east of the Suez canal, suffered terrible hardships hard-ships in their march across the desert, des-ert, according to a Router's Cairo dispatch dis-patch quoting stories of Turkish prisoners. pris-oners. The dispatch says that batches batch-es of prisoners continue to arrive in Cairo. Lack of water was one of the principal prin-cipal causes of suffering of the Turkish troops. In some cases they suffered so frightfully from thirst that they killed their camels and drank the blood. Tho prisoners say the Turkish losses loss-es were exceedingly heavy as they attacked at-tacked In mass formation in ignorance ignor-ance of the strong defenses of the British. The devastating machine gun fire with which the assault was met was the first indication the privates had of the task that confronted them. .According to one of the troops, a Turkish detachment whicn surrendered surrender-ed first killed their German officers. |