s and us, and then we had a severe
shelling from Asia all to ourselves. We just wanted a good rattling
earthquake to complete this fearsome picture of hell where both man
and the gods warred.

The Turks have started a new form of frightfulness. They shell us
every now and then from Asia, and from there last night they dropped
into W. Beach a huge shell that detonates with a terrible crash, and
every twenty minutes or so they treated us to one of these, and made
the whole night hideous, and sleep impossible.

This afternoon a French battleship stationed herself off the entrance
to the Dardanelles, and fired about fifty rounds from her biggest guns
at a point on a hill about a mile beyond Kum Kale. As the Turkish guns
are believed to be in tunnels they were firing practically at right
angles to these, and I could not possibly see how they could get a
direct hit, and prophesied that as soon as the ship left they would
show that there was life in the old dog yet, by giving a worse
cannonade than usual, and this was just what happened. No fewer than
five shells fell in the C.C.S. beside us, killing the cook, and
wounding two orderlies, and a number of the already wounded. I saw
several horses and mules fall to their bag also. Then as soon as it
got dark they made up their minds that we were not to be allowed to
sleep, and every fifteen to twenty minutes we had a terrific crash in
the camp up to 5 a.m. This becomes very trying, and all wish that
something could be done to silence these guns. Nothing will do but a
landing on the Asiatic side.

_July 1st._--I came out to Aberdeen Gully after breakfast. Here one
feels comparatively safe, and we are enjoying the peace after our
nocturnal shellings, and the thought of a good night's sleep braces
one up wonderfully. Fiddes and I walked over to the Artillery
Observation Post to see the extent of our advance, the other day, and
I was surprised to find our front trenches so far forward. Some of
these front trenches we still divide with the Turks, and during their
attempts to recover some of these last night the darkness of the night
and the thunderstorm terrified the Gurkhas so much that they nearly
lost their most advanced line.

_July 2nd._--Spent a quiet day out at the dressing station--as far as
work went. I went over to Y. Beach by the mule track, but as shells
were dropping about both these places I returned sooner than I
intended. In the afternoon a message from the Tu