ABDUL'S CHRISTMAS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 1210, 7 January 1925, Page 12

ABDUL'S CHRISTMAS.

LIVELY TIME AT SUVLA. GRAVE TENDING INTERLUDE. LONDON, Dec. 27. Colonel Hughes, who was in charge of war graves in Gallipoli, is about to enter a nursing home, in order to undergo a slight operation, as the result of a. fall from a motor-cycle in Gallipoli. In March next, lie will take up the supervision of the permanent staffs of all the war graves in the Near East, comprising Gallipoli, Egypt, Palestine, Persia and Irak. Colonel Hughes to-day stated that lie had received a message from the officer in charge of the graves on Gallipoli, stating that three Turks, who were emnloyed as gardeners at the Suvla i3ay cemeteries, celebrated Christmas by brigandage. KILLED A WOMAN. They raided a house In tho village of Boghali, near Suvla Bay, stole 800 • piastres and threw a Turkish man and his wife down a 30ft well. The woman was killed and the man is dying from his injuries. The commission's staff joined the native police and captured two of the men. The third escaped, but afterwards returned in the night-time and tried to bribe a native gardener to conceal him in his house, subsequently menacing him at the point of a revolver. The brigand, however, fled to the hills at the approach of pursuers, and was killed after an exchange of shots, during a chase for a mile. "The incident illustrates the excitenient of grave-tending, and also the co-operation that exists between the British and Turkish officials," added Colonel Hughes.