SIDELIGHTS ON GALLIPOLI.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2785, 7 August 1915, Page 4

SIDELIGHTS ON GALLIPOLI.

SOLDIERS' GARDEN NCITIES. Alexandria, June 21. \ As soon as *an Australian soldier finds himself settled down in one spot, for a few weeks, his thoughts seem to turn to gardening., Around the dug-outs of Gallipoli several cultivation patches are already beginning to appear, and it is not unusual to seea soldier .-tending his little spot of green with shrapnel shell bursting, near by. Some of the troops have : planted melon seetis, but vegetables ami flowers are more popular. A few of the most enterprising horticulturists aro attempting to improve the native rhododendron, holly, and soar- ; let pimpernel, by lavishing attention upon them, but it is too early yet.to judge the results. During this week a. Victorian soldier received in a letter from home a small packet of phlox seeds, which were immediately planted, but next day he was wounded and was sent to the base. His last request to a comrade was that care should be given .to the garden during his absence. Nearly every dug-out has a name. Away up in tho firing line a carefully-painted sign lias been nailed to a tree, with a finger pointing ; towards the east. On it is written in" black letters, "To Constantinople!" A paper is circulated in the firing line. It is known as the "Peninsula Press'," and contains all the war news. The paper consists of only a single sheet, and is a military production, being printed, at the island of Imbros.