WINTER AT ANZAC.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 249, 20 October 1915, Page 5

WINTER AT ANZAC.

GULLIES :NOAV DESERTED

SUI>DEN CHANOE OP SEASONS

Preparations for the winter at Anzttc are describee! by the special correspondent of the Melbourne Age, wrrtang from Gaba Tepe on August--30. , You can watoh now the eyolni'um. 01 Arisvac from summer to winter aspect;, he writes, just as it has been possible to remark , on the gradual settling down of the army on the peninsula- Of late there has beeii a considerable spreading out, and the crowded lw.tu re of the centre of tlve position has to some degree diminished.

Soon there will be little life in ika "bed of the gullies. It is possible now to go right away to the left, ami Tiaste is being made. Last season the weather broke on August 20. My informant1 is a man who lived not eight miles from the Anzac hills on one or the many rich farm holdings before the outbreak of war. It might therefore be any day now when the conditions change from good to bad. In fact, in less than a day the storms arise without any warning. There have been a .few rather heavy rain squalls in the last few weeks, when only at the peril'-of yoxu1 life could. you scramble aboard the little pin-' naees that rocked to and fro, ami I bumped against the'sides of the jetty ' or tho trawler. And when it does rain, I am informed, it rains inches at a time. It may be boisterous weather/ for a week, and then a spell of comparative- calm. So we may expect two or three storms in September nnd October, n.nd then a dropping of the mercury in the thermometer until snow follows ice and sleet, and give?, a temporary respite from intense low temperature. Two or three feet of snow may be on the ground at a time. The gullies become torrents, and Hand slides are constant. No wonder, therefore, Suvia Bay was taken as a base, for the winds blow up from the south and south-west.