PROM GAZA

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3177, 30 August 1917, Page 5

PROM GAZA

i NEWS OF THE WELLINGTON fUiGUUIENT. 'According to tlue latest advice per mail from the Palestine front, tho Wellington Mounted Regijncnt was back on tile coast resting after being two months before (iaza. Its location was then on tho shores of the Mediterranean, about seven miles from Gaza. According to a letter from a Wellington trooper, conditions were not at all unpleasant,, save for the ever-present torment of flies, which necessitated "waving your bread and jam in the air violently before taking a bite." Seaward the men were able to watch the mine-sweepers and warships at work. One mine came ashore, but did no damage-. "I am beginning to think," says the writer, "that the Wellington Itegiment is very lucky, as tho afternoon on which it left the trenches Mr. Turk onine overhead and dropped about a dozen bombs on the poor Tommies who had relieved us. One landed fair in -the cook-honse. I think being bombed by an aeroplane is our worst hardship. You look up and think she is in. a dead line with youj and you perhaps send your horse along in an opposite direction to that in which the 'plane is travelling, yet when you rook up again it 6eems to be in the same awkward position. The explosion of these big bombs is terrific, and anything within a radius of 50 yards is liable to get bit. Last night (Juno 10) somo of our warships stood off tfhe coast opposite Gaza and gave them two or three hours heavy shelling. Old John Turk could not have had a very comfortable night's sleep."