other games.

They have also a tennis-court, of which the Austro-Germans make more use
than the Orientals; a committee of the prisoners arrange the hours for
each set of players. Skittles are very popular. Fencing is eagerly
learned; the English officer who teaches it being delighted with his
pupils' progress. Lessons in gymnastics, like those in other sports, are
optional.

Periodically a gymkhana is got up, with donkey races, gymnastic
competitions, and the distribution of prizes.


_Work._--No work is demanded from the prisoners.


_Correspondence, Money Orders and Parcels._--Very few money orders are
received. The interned Turks are chiefly illiterate; those whose wives
are interned at Cairo, and who are allowed to occasionally visit them,
seldom write, as they know them to be well treated. Parcels are seldom
sent to the camp, and hitherto no philanthropic society has busied
itself over the necessitous.


_Prisoners' Aid._--The only plea which has been addressed to us by means
of the Ottoman interpreter, who speaks French and English extremely
well, comes from a certain number of destitute prisoners. They wish to
have, in addition to the complete outfit with woollen overcoat supplied
by the English Government, a change of warm garments, which they have
not the means to buy. Many find it difficult to wear the kind of