TROUBLE-IN BEERSHEBA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 26 May 1915, Page 2

TROUBLE-IN BEERSHEBA.

"Discontent and distress prevail in Syria. The fellaheen are suffering from the effects of the mobilisation, accompanied by. rfhe wholesale requisitions of provisions, live stock, and transport," says The Times Cairo correspondent.

''Those able-bodied men who were not called to the colors are now subjected .to a corvee. The vbeasts hired and gobds requisitioned are seldom paid lor, and the payment sometimes offered is usually far below the value of the goods.

' 'Thus, the Sheikhs of the Beni-Suk-■hur JBeduin were recently ordered- to supply 600 camels, the hire offered being a napoleon per camel, but they received sixty napoleons in all on their arrival, at Beersheba. The indignation at this treatment led'them to pillage the arms depot at Beersheba and flee with their "beasts into the eastern desert, killing several of the soldiers who vainly tried to arrest them at Amman. It is only thanks to an excellent harvest that the population are not already suffering from famine."