Show t ic r is I 1 I 1 1 1 ti ff dwle agn 0 V 11 fr anz wt I 1 A 0 aw W I 1 ile 4 az 9 by CAPT FERDINAND t I 1 rd close of october 1917 a tuft office attached to gene al bawar be war a a in t 1 the BI d egypto pa willed age saying that every ef di 11 conaty force mile out fort is to be mad magh t to re codan let no lilithe land 1 aImin mack that vs last th I 1 a mrs tile direct of bee 11 noon in no aaa lead I 1 sheba I 1 it can bial doty he hate between reallie schmidt that if tha it e turk suit amov be at thin desort am camine gamine aai r q end of the line vs sometimes a great wrong that th aln sell 0 o iiii mount cd ad reconnaissance patrols were IS necessary me the more so BO at this particular juncture in that allenby s push for J jerusalem iem was due to start from day to day followed by an a tor orderly larl the staff officer rode code shout tor for some same little time now new consulting his map now dow scanning with field bald glasses tile unending camel scrub and ad sued band suddenly zip bip zip sip eipl alp le several eral III rifle shots rang out bud and the officer half he fell fail from his horse home then recovering him spit self headed beat about tie the couple had bad apparently ridden right on an to a turk b ish post past and the orderly needed no second word of command as aa to the to la which he we was now to proceed before fol following loIng him however if afie a out officer c at swung round two or three tha throes a in an effort to recover his haver baar sank anck which had bad dropped to the ground ni as he had tilted filled owr or when hit but bit the T arkili fire vs as becoming more rapid bud aad he apparently was petting getting ve weaker I 1 ker finally the have haversack I 1 had I 1 to be left tilea there on V the m sand and under th the a nos noses of the turks turk 1 in the he course me of the evening aning a 0 alro something 1 in 1 his s style ila was circulated tar yd led throughout the i three U me corps lo 10 line in URGENT tt alle on reconnaissance patrol I 1 in N no a man do a lord land till this after no noon m boad about x 21 d 4 3 a staff officer hi lost I 1 a bv haversack k if found the haver a sack I 1 is to be red returned corned fortt forthwith edth to general headquarters without bring being op opened ad or its ins contents e examined in wy way later an enciphered wireless almis mess I 1 age n adad dadd D efforts are to be made tonight ill bj troops la in the sector in solved to recover the lost loat haversack mentioned la in 0 jt 0 no 10 that night the writer messed at a corps carps headquarters and as aa grained lowas hnit art after this fashion oh L lord rd I 1 here am I 1 a one of if these G ual wal she lahs I 1 nice business this afternoon can t go out cout on patrol without B us the whole show dhow away to the turks I 1 found your blessed hersack hav set icat I 1 should my any not tf not net ilk likely a ly to either I 1 the old turks turk 3 fairly gloating oer it by DOW con wood the whole plan ilan of the push I 1 apos suppose 7 th the fellow bt be dropped it kind to be strung strong up I 1 Pre prancing about up to the turk with till operation orders tn in hla his pocket 1 0 on the gaa front at this period the nuri british tish line extended the r W coast to the vicinity of 60 or 70 miles inland toward the desert in 11 the push for far ja jerusalem late general Alleo all bys grandiose plan hinged fanged met mainly U it not it entirely on an the th a swift and alf s sure reduction of Been habat unless this were effected the whole action stood steed in 11 danga of fizzling out nell tin the turks got wind of gm gen eral allenby Allen ba plan bad and shortly dortly hort ly before am 7 day y the day of pur par often mr she they the moved a division fr from go gaa across into reserva at beersheba th the move a about balanced the oppe mg fall in the vital bee beer bb heba sector anil and so it bee became abao b lutela cutely necessary to do something to cause the turks to move this division back to gaza again 0 or for that tant matter to nor part pan of the line as aa long a as it was away from beersheba the head of if the enemy emeary s m 1 opposite van n as aoe C captain P 1 schiller an intelligence service exists to ond find out act what our opponent contemplates cwg next it now babb behooved ad our Intelli intelligence cance to make maize thel their the car enemy cary Y intelligence 1 balve I 1 that ou there was as nothing to fear 1 in the beersheba i sector the t the vl I 1 tal od attack we ans coming catalog abl elsewhere bare scheme after scheme he was a weight and found wanting ending and the days were slipping by 1 in the end it we wag agreed that one ne hope would be to d devise aline a means a ot f getting faked documentary evidence through brutish to schiller himself and ad so no to or set but the stage that e een that wily why customer st would be taken take 1 tn it would be a risk for should fd hiller d de ride cide that h abe in forma I 1 ion in outdo brat thet had bad been purposely ay conw conveyed to him that in n feet fact it was dope ne a had better tar far have left ties the whole affair most meet seerey alone but now to re count this q queer we tale through its de let US ns reconstruct nt the im acene am 1 in bIlli filee am office L as w we hol bele it to have been bee enacted that t october club rr 1 ry night eight the he at discovery of if a by a turkish patrol schiller penn opens the hrek end and finds I 1 inside a some sandwiches an electric III tonn much and B flask a map up and ad a wallet uh rod and notebook combined B he rends reads intently several pages ot of acirit hied bled pencil notes written 1 in diary farm then pushes police bk back his chair and ad I ih laughs h outright it ha hot hal das let pit specially dropped tor for us to pick up I 1 T they he re IS getting ting quite clever th these english I 1 A signal officer announces announce the english have just joe sent seat out a gna care rest first not mot nt at Beer chat these them notes refer to all 11 alharb allenby Y a eon conferences fare me for the past month I 1 m certain i chev thre th re faked why look what those orl somers told ug UM only 1 I 1 yesterday 1 and their artillery P preparation rep rati and ad wits wire less activity there them are am still sti some same papers la in the wallet sir bald the younger officer lit it mir egal cent I 1 rasps naps the taber other fiercely then changing tone toile gott in what I 1 have got get here her and he be rc reads ads dear K sorry sam we must delay aw little short shoot its as im I 1 in running down do to calm cairo tor for a few days rest back november 4 yours tours E allenby looks look slowly 1 owl y frola the let ter to the calendar the offensive was waa expected for october 28 slid and here ft as the british commander com maDder in chief going away on II leave dcarl Donner attar wetter Is proclaims P I 1 S the ger gar man if this fan fart t becoming I 1 g yen tea what Is ia itt this to a junior officer just entered prisoners andera taken at el tug ve ser say bay they awe warned bit B this after athill noon about the loss losa of a haversack a me k if I 1 found failed it ft be was not at on art say any abou amou account t to open it but was waa to send it of fleet direct to headquarters schiller ties t rear an aa this fur fill till ther evidence of authenticity terms in almost feverishly he re rims to the wallet and takes out its remaining contents a photograph the phet coph rt photograph of a woman written across in endearing terms and a letter schiller reads the letter avidly on an and ad on an it tells tell of the birth of a first firm bar born of little head hands and ad lift little teet feet it rambles on do la in that tender leader language I 1 g chih only a young mother truth at can make S tier own th the letter Is a elf crinkled kvid mad and has ben beed clearia read mad afeld it reread a to hundred deed times it 1 Is a letter in a wl mil lion on its it loss loan could only be aad ad 1 cental I BI bo be man reasoned tied th the division that had bad been hastily noved moved into reserve at B beersheba Beera rehab heba was wall as ig hastily moved back bach to gaza G on october 28 wo we attacked the weakened turkish position pos itle at be beep heba bud and na as all the world knows cap had fed everything before us and the letter concerning cona terming the other lerm om the letter that saved hundreds la zd possibly t thousands hum bund of if bri british aves bud and went far to giving ua be Jecus jerusalem ill am and ad ultimately tely a sw whole country has the little hospital ware nurse a at VS ml annh with the girlish handwriting forgotten ottea SM all about it |