r twenty-four hours.

_April 22nd._--To-day we gave the men their Iodine ampules for use
with their first field dressings, and distributed General
Hunter-Weston's address congratulating our Brigade on the honour done
us on receiving the chief post of danger in the coming attack, which
will likely be at daybreak on Saturday, April 24. Before the Turkish
trenches can be reached by our men it is expected that they will have
to get through a wire entanglement 25 feet wide and 6 feet high.
According to the present plans we are to be preceded by the Royal
Munster Fusiliers.

There is great activity in Lemnos Harbour this morning, especially
among the torpedo boats which have been flitting about at their
hardest. No boats have been allowed to leave our ship for two days,
the order being that this can only be done if to save life. Water,
which we were much in need of, was brought on board last night, and we
are ready to start off--and have been since yesterday at 4 p.m. the
appointed hour. But it would be contrary to all my experience if we
got away at the fixed time.

Fiddes arrived from the "Marquette" at lunch time and brought my
service cap, helmets having been recalled a week ago.

Lord Kitchener sent us the other day an account of the fighting at
Busorah, preparing us for what was before us. The Turks had fought
desperately, were well trained, and well led, and could only be turned
out of their trenches at the point of the bayonet.

General Sir Ian Hamilton, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean
Force, sends us his address:--

"FORCE ORDER (SPECIAL),
"GENERAL HEAD-QUARTERS,
"_April 21, 1915._

"Soldiers of France and of the King!

"Before us lies an adventure unprecedented in modern war. Together
with our comrades of the fleet we are about to force a landing
upon an open beach in face of positions which have been vaunted by
our enemies as impregnable. The landing will be made good, by the
help of God and the Navy, the positions will be stormed, and the
war brought one step nearer to a glorious close.

"'Remember,' said Lord Kitchener, when bidding adieu to your
commander, 'Remember, once you set foot on the Gallipoli
Peninsula, you must fight the thing through to a finish'.

"The whole world will be watching our progress. Let us prove
ourselves worthy of the great feat o