write three times a week, and a certain number of them get more educated
comrades to write for them. Correspondence is practically impossible for
those who belong to nomadic tribes.


_Religion._--Except one Copt, all the prisoners are Mahometans. There
are many imaums among them. Religious exercises are practised freely and
regularly.


_Discipline and Behaviour._--There are no complaints as to discipline,
and no attempts to escape have taken place. Despite racial diversities,
few quarrels take place among the prisoners, and the authorities seldom
need to interfere. We spoke to an old and infirm sheik who is treated
with particular regard and has a tent to himself; he told us that he is
in every way satisfied.




~CONCLUSIONS~


The Red Cross International Committee, at Geneva, has since the
beginning of the war organised visits to the camps of prisoners of war
and of civilian prisoners in the various belligerent countries.

The members of the mission sent to Egypt, MM. Dr. F. Blanched, E.
Schoch, and F. Thormeyer, had already inspected camps in Germany,
France, Morocco and Russia. They may be allowed to compare the treatment