23 JANUARY 1915, Page 2

Imagine five thousand camels taking water out to the right

flank ten miles from the Turkish centre, and another five thousand camels taking it to the left flank at a similar distance. Then picture the result of aircraft dropping bombs upon these unwieldy mobs I Camels, at the beet, are not tractable beasts, but camels driven crazy by attacks from the air are quite beyond our vocabulary. However, let us suppose all these difficulties surmounted, and the Turks with their German officers deployed on a twenty-mile front and with twenty-four hours' supply of water per man ready to attack and carry the Canal defences. How long is the operation going to take them P