Italys War for a Desert Being Some Experiences of a War Correspondent With the
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They were in the form of a hollow square. Inside the square walked about fifty Arabs, men and boys. There was one boy of ten or eleven a slim, lithe child with a carriage as graceful as that of a young Arab foal. The children seemed to feel quite safe since they were in the company of their parents, uncles, cousins, and all the people in their street. They looked out beyond the glittering line of bayonets with wide-open but serene, unalarmed eyes. They were wondering whither the foreigners were... bringing them. The foreigners marched them down the street towards the oasis on the outskirts of the town, but half-a-mile or so from the edge of the desert and the Italian trenches. Then a strange thing happened. From the midst of the date-palm gardens a shot rang out, then another and another. Bullets whizzed past our heads. A sudden panic seized upon the soldiers, and they rushed to line the ditches on the side of the road. They left their prisoners standing in the middle of the broad pathway, all roped to- gether, all calm and silent, and looking somehow THE " PURGING " OF THE OASIS 283 in their long white garments and in their general attitude like a flock of sheep and lambs.
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