but the interned women expressed no desire that he should repeat his
visit. However, an old woman, chosen from among them, reads the Koran
aloud upon feast days.


_Intellectual Diversions._--The women seem to have no needs or desires
on this score. They pass their days in talking and smoking.

The camp has been presented with a gramophone.


_Work._--This is absolutely voluntary. The head nurse has organised a
little dressmaking class, the wife of a former president, Sir B.
McMahon, having given her £10 with which to buy the necessary materials.
The results will be divided equally among those who did the work, but as
most of the women have plenty of money they are not energetic over it.


_Money._--Many of those interned had money on them, sometimes a large
amount, when captured; the whole of which has been left in their hands.
They often send money through the agency of British officers to their
husbands who are prisoners in Maadi Camp, or at Sidi Bishr, near
Alexandria. Others, on the contrary, receive allowances from their
husbands. Some money orders have also come through the International Red
Cross Committee.


_Correspondence._--Each person interned has the chance of writing once a
week; those who do not know how to write get help from their companions.
An interpreter is attached to the camp. Many letters arrive through the