IN PALESTINE.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3279, 29 June 1917, Page 2

IN PALESTINE.

Trooper A. Philps. of Rongotoa, who went away with the First Reinforcements, as a member of the Gtli : Wellington) Mounted Rifles, in the course of a letter to his parents from Palestine, says that there had been little time for writing.in April. "Riding and fighting has been more plentiful than grub." lie continues, "and we have just bad a three-days' beatwave blowing in off the great Syrian flesort. Tfio" hoat was never below 100 degrees a), night, and well over It'O in the daytime. We bad_ one •i retch of 86 hours last week iriding ■i nd fighting. Wo then had four hours' sleep, and started again, and aro still going." Trooper Philps adds I hat lie is now on the troop ma-rhirie-Kim, and is having a. little easier (iino while there is no fighting, (nit tho gun gels into tho interestnig plaoes when there is anything doing. Five- men wore disabled off one gun in a recent engagement.

On Tuesday evening next, in the Bnptisl. Church, a service will be held ill memory of Corporal A. V. Fade, who was killed in action in Franco, tin Ihe 71 Ii insi.. He was seerelary of ilie Christian Endeavour Union. nVlnek olos-inti; meet-ing in Ilie Town Mall. Wellington, on Wednesday niglif. for Ihe sufferers in (lie recent air hit; rai<! on (lie East' TCnd of Lon iloii realised £-10 IMp M.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.