nd spreading, and growing in a piece of good turf
beside a well. In that part the whole ground is strewn with bullets.

_May 30th._--I have not been out of camp to-day. The men in our
dressing station came in at 3 a.m. with a long tale of the fury of the
shelling out there, many casualties occurring round it. Evidently
there is no better place to be had, but the part devoted to the
wounded runs in such a way that it can be directly enfiladed by gun
and rifle fire from Achi Baba. Another trench at right angles to this
could easily be broadened and deepened to hold all the wounded and a
whole tent-subdivision.

Three shots were fired from our battery on Tekke Burnu about 6.30 p.m.
and at once all the destroyers darted out to sea. Evidently a
submarine had been sighted. It is now getting dark, and the sea is
covered with our mosquito craft darting about in all directions.

We employ several hundred Greeks, mostly road making. They receive
2s. 6d. a day and their food. All those working at the Beach struck
work to-day, demanding higher wages, and retired to their shelter
holes in the cliff. A company of Dublin Fusiliers was called out, and
fixing bayonets they kicked the mutineers out of their holes, and all
were driven into a corner at the foot of the rocks, the open side shut
in by a line of bayonets, and there they are to be kept, without food
and water till they come to their senses. The Greek nation has always
been greedy, always unreliable, and the most notorious liars on the
face of the earth.

_May 31st._--This has been a very quiet day, the Turks and ourselves
having fired comparatively few shots. Although there has been no hard
fighting lately, really little more than sniping, we still have a
casualty list of some size. Those leaving for treatment on the boats
or at the base hospitals of Malta and Alexandria have a daily average
of about 125. This includes sickness as well as wounds.

_June 1st._--There was much noise last night after all, there being
much gun and rifle fire, especially on our centre, but with few
casualties, as far as I can learn.

It has been known for two days that the Turks are to make a determined
attack on us to-night, for which we are no doubt fully prepared. Since
5 this evening both sides have been very liberal with their shells.
Krithia and its neighbourhood, as well as the right ridge of Achi
Baba, has been reeking from the discharge of our and the French
shells.

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