distributed among the other camps in Egypt.


_Strength._--Five thousand five hundred and fifty-six Turkish
non-commissioned officers and men, including 1,200 men recently captured
at El Arish in the Sinai peninsula.

No officers are interned in this camp. Three imaums (priests) were not
classed with the officers, as they had served as privates.

The prisoners include--besides Turks--Arabs, Armenians, Greeks, Jews
from Palestine and Mesopotamia, and some Senoussi. Only a small number
have been captives ever since the beginning of the war; a large
proportion come from Gallipoli. We found among the prisoners a boy 8
years old, named Abd-el-Mohsen, who lives in camp with his father.

The camp is divided into 41 sections and 4 quarters. The last are
divided off from one another by barbed wire fences.


_Accommodation._--The quarters of the Turkish prisoners in Maadi Camp
include: (1) Old buildings originally erected as a school of music and
subsequently used as a factory; (2) barracks built recently for
prisoners of war.

The first consist chiefly of a huge hall 252 feet long and 49 feet wide,
with many large openings in the walls. The roof, of match-boarding, is
33 feet above the floor. Standpipes are fixed all along the hall. There
are, in addition, some out-buildings used by the management and as
stores.