THE SUVLA BLIZZARD.

A medical officer who was present at the evacuation of Gallipoli, writing home, says-:— "I believe I have told you of the great blizzard 1 and frost at Suvla ; and here on the fourth and fifth days dozens of men came m frozen solid to the knees, many with gangrene far, advanced. A lot of them were mere boys, but they refused to leave the treriches till reinforcements poured m. Even the sick iii hospital . rose ttp and took their rifles and went up to hold the line. It was truly magnificent. "One little picture I will draw illustrative of our life for five days. One morning a Newfoundlander m a trench) near us called my attention to two, figures m a. ditch out/by the Salt Lake. ! I took out a stretcher party, and there we found two lads of the City of London Re<riment sitting m the ditch, frozen' and dead. One had his , arms round the other, who held fragments of biscuit m the corner of his mouth. j "Fancy the struggle for life across one and a half miles of frozen marsh m the teeth of a blizzard, and then, within sight of the lights of our camp, the weaker had given way and his chum had sat down with him and put his 'Arms round him. and . tried to get him to . eat a piece of ration biscuit,and so death had found them both. ' The agony of the battle of Sari Behr was' matched by the despair of the blizzard j at Suvla. But these men were the heroes of the child's dream."