NO CHILD'S PLAT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16019, 10 September 1915, Page 8

NO CHILD'S PLAT.

PROGRESS OF CAMPAIGN. SOLDIER'S ESTIMATE.

MORE SINGLE MEN WANTED.

Some impressions of the conditions in the Anzac region are given bv Sapper? Frank Leyland, Field Engineers, ma series of notes written from Julv 7 to 16, ; to his father, Mr. W. B. Leyland. "1 § have had a shake up from the censor for putting too much in my letters," be says. "I suppose I can only tell you that 1 am quite well. "Talk about mail— day before yesterday I received three letters and a f Weekly News, and sit more letters today. lam glad to hear that tie boys are 1 rolling up to the Brill Hall to enlist. Iv felt sure they would as soon as they saw > it was no child's play. You don't want to worry too much about us. We are certainly not having a glorious time, but § the poor old Turks are not having nearly „" as good a time as we are. I think 90 per cent, of them would be only too ~ willing to throw in the sponge. They are just about petered now,, and I don't think fj our troops will be needed here in the winter. ' "&, Hospital Ship Welcome. " I am glad that they are sending us - a hospital ship. We have some, but it is . decent to have one sent from old .New ■ Zealand. It will make the wounded feel - more as if they are at home. Don't worry . about me not having any cash. If I had a million pounds, I would not be able to | spend a penny, and it would only be more to carry round. I will let you know iPlff want any when we get away from here." > In a previous letter, Sapper Leyland described the wrecking, by a shell, of a/; workshop, in which he had been engaged in the making of periscopes for rifles. Writing on July 16, he says :—" We have: shifted our periscope factory now, and " have it in a good place, "with plenty. of cover from shells. Things are pretty slow here now, and it is getting rather \ monotonous, but I expect we will liven up soon. That was decent about the Germans at South-west Africa. I am living in hopes that the Turks will be doing the same before long. Everything here is going on well, and I have never felt better I in my life."

The Han Who Stays at Home. _ " Ton say they are talking of conscription in New Zealand," /sapper Leyland remarks in a letter to his brother," "so they should, when there are so many ablebodied single men who won't enlist. This place i« not so bad, but it is no place for a -.Harried man, however much he may want to do his bit. I reckon the married: men of New Zealand are not needed whilst • there are so many single ones - hanging" round. Things have been quiet here lately, but I suppose we will be kicking up a bit of a shindy before long, and settling a few more poultry. There is one thing sure they will never kick us out.

Bombardment by Cruiser. " There is going to be a big noise here in a few minutes. There is a cruiser in the bay, and the ship that carries the: captive balloon has just come up, so there is a bit of a bombardment on. It Is funny to watch the destroyers. One of them will spot something and blaze at it. and another about three nvles away will tear no at full-speed to eet in a couDle of cracks. They are just like dogs rashing to a fi"ht. "I believe that some disease has brok«i' out amongst the Turks. If it has the poor can't be bavins too rood a time— with us. and disease, it c»n"6 be too nleasant for tbem. The cruiser is whipping them in now. I can't see what she is firing at, but bet it is not at nothing."