The first night on our new duty passed
reasonably quickly. During the whole of
the night there were about six vehicles in all which passed through the zone
gate.
We had no fire last night and we shivered in
the freezing cold night air. I had come
prepared for the cold wearing four pullovers and two pairs of sock extra to my
normal accoutrement, but this was not enough even then. My friend and I took a blanket each and this
kept our shoulders warm but our feet froze.
This afternoon we were informed that two
Police 15cwt trucks had been stolen during the night from H.Q. in our zone, and
it was suspected that they had left the zone via the gate we were
guarding. We recorded statements to the
effect that we had seen no 15cwts pass through all night.
Last night we procured some wood from odd
places nearby and built a fire which warmed us all night.
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| A street tea vendor in Gaza, 1946 courtesy of the acid history blog |
My partner purchased a thermos flask
yesterday and we were very pleased with the hot tea thus obtained and with the
packet of biscuits I took to work. At
about 2.30am we heard a shout from a nearby road and
looking out from the Sanger we saw an Arab coming out of the darkness with a
tray and a primus in a tin bucket. He
was selling “Tea with milk” at 1½
piastres a cup.
We each had a cup full and the man told us
he had no employment so was earning about 10/- a night by selling tea to the
night guards.
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