Beyond this point no Jew or Christian was allowed to pass, with the exception of the physicians, all of whom were non-Mohammedans who had been forced into the army.
Beersheba was swarming with troops.

They filled the town and overflowed on to the sands outside, where a great tent-city grew up.

And everywhere that the Turkish soldiers went, disorganization and inefficiency followed them.

From all over the country the finest camels had been "requisitioned" and sent down to Beersheba until, at the time I was there, thousands and thousands of them were collected in the neighborhood.

Through the laziness and stupidity of the Turkish commissariat officers, which no amount of German efficiency could counteract, no adequate provision was made for feeding them, and incredible numbers succumbed to starvation and neglect.