Done by the 3rd Field Telegraph Section;
But somewhere--
THERE'S A DISCONNECTION!

The native merely thumps his drum,
He thumps it boldly, thus--"Tum! Tum!"

J. H.
(Sailing for Salonika.)


Kangaroo Beach was where the Australian bridge-building section had
their stores and dug-outs.

It was one muddle and confusion of water-tanks, pier-planks, pontoons,
huge piles of bully-beef, biscuit and jam boxes. Here we came each
evening with the water-cart to get our supply of water, and here the
water-carts of every unit came down each evening and stood in a row
and waited their turn. The water was pumped from the water-tank boats
to the tank on shore.

The water-tank boats brought it from Alexandria. It was filthy water,
full of dirt, and very brackish to taste. Also it was warm. During the
two months at Suvla Bay I never tasted a drop of cold water--it was
always sickly lukewarm, sun-stewed.

All day long high explosives used to sing and burst--sometimes killing
and wounding men, sometimes blowing up the bully-beef and biscuits,
sometimes falling with a hiss and a column of white spray into the
sea. It was here that the field-telegraph of the Royal Engineers