ose was to chase such visitors? At 7 we transferred to a pinnace,
and after much bother about baggage we reached our familiar dug-outs
about 8. On our way up from the Beach, we passed the Signal Station
which was a heap of ruins. A shell fell on the roof two days ago,
killed six men outright, and wounded ten, one of these afterwards
dying. The numerous recent shell holes in the road and elsewhere
showed that the Turks had not been idle in our absence. The 88th F.A.
beside us had several casualties, one day losing ten mules and three
another, with one man wounded.

_August 4th._--It is twelve months to-day since war was declared by
England on Germany. The number of men slaughtered in that time should
be an easy record in the whole history of the world.

We are ordered to relieve the 88th F.A. at their dressing station near
Pink Farm on the West Krithia road, and I walked out in the morning to
view the place and to see what extras it would be necessary for us to
take with us. I found Whitaker there with thirty men. Towards evening
Fiddes and I came out with thirty-two men, and we are now in our
dug-outs, which are really part of an old trench. It is a narrow
bedroom but airy. We have a stretcher or two as a roof to keep the sun
out, but with their huge blood stains they do not form an artistic
ceiling.

It is now 10 p.m. and having come 2 miles nearer Achi Baba I had to go
out and study what was doing. The usual all-night rifle fire goes on;
roars occasionally from the batteries near us; Asiatic shells I can
hear exploding over at V. Beach; star shells are going up from our
lines, and the French, but theirs are superior to ours. Ours are
merely rockets, theirs have parachutes which open when the rocket
reaches its highest point, and they remain practically stationary for
a considerable time.

We are in a very exposed position and have been warned that we will be
sniped at once if we show a light. A few stray bullets have come about
us, and I could wish that my parapet was a trifle higher, and I am,
moreover, doubtful whether my candle light is not reflected through
the roof stretchers which have a wrong tilt. But I will risk both
dangers to-night, and will heighten my wall by daylight.

The Achi Baba guns shelled W. Beach rather furiously to-day, and in
the afternoon a large number of shells fell in the harbour.

_August 5th._--Had a quiet day at Pink Farm (in some of our maps this
is called Saliri Farm). In th