The Turks had got an immensely strong position about Talat ed Dumm, the 'Mound of Blood,' where stands a ruined castle of the Crusaders, the Chastel Rouge.

The chief objective of the centre column was Talat ed Dumm which, lying on the Jericho road just before the junction of the old and the new road to the Jordan valley, was the key to Jericho.

Likewise a platoon distributed behind rocks on the many hills could command the approaches from all directions, while the hill of Talat ed Dumm, by the Good Samaritan Inn, and the height whereon the Crusader ruins stand, dominated a broad flat across which our troops must move.

There are green patches on the western side of Talat ed Dumm in the early months of the year before the sun has burned up the country.

By eight o'clock we had taken the whole of the Talat ed Dumm position, and long-range sniping throughout the day did not disturb our secure possession of it.

This was Jebel Ekteif, the southern end of the range of hills of which Talat ed Dumm was the northern.

They had given up hope of keeping their landing place on the northern shores of the Dead Sea when we took Talat ed Dumm, and one hour after our infantry had planted themselves on the Hill of Blood we saw the enemy burning his boats, wharves, and storehouses at Rujm el Bahr, where he had expended a good deal of labour to put up buildings to store grain wanted for his army.

TALAT ED DUMM.

Godwi was repudiated soon after its publicatipn by Brentano himself, who said there was only one good thing about it, the title, for, after people had said "Godwi," they could just keep on talking and say, "Godwi, dumm."

SEE Jenkins, Glenn L. DUMM, EDWINA. Sinbad: a dog's life.

Edwina Dumm (A); 24Jul58; R218411.

DUMM, EDWINA.

Edwina Dumm (A); 18Jan60; R250448.

SEE Jenkins, Glenn L. DUMM, EDWINA. Sinbad: a dog's life.

Edwina Dumm (A); 24Jul58; R218411.

DUMM, EDWINA.

Edwina Dumm (A); 18Jan60; R250448.

Its misuse for stupid is partly due, especially in Pennsylvania, to its resemblance to the German dumm.