REST FROM WARFARE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16026, 18 September 1915, Page 8

REST FROM WARFARE.

PICNIC ON IMBROS ISLAND.

LUXURIOUS MEALS AGAIN.

Means have evidently been found to give a complete respite to the troops engaged in the Gaba Tepe region, by sending parties to a rest camp on "imbros Island. Writing from the firing-line on July 28 to his mother, Mrs. J. J. Payne, Clarence Street, Private Albert Payne 14th, South Otago, Company, gives a highly appreciative account of his stay in the Imbros camp. "We went for a three days' holidav last week to Imbros, about 15 miles from here, and we did have a good time," he writes. "Starting from here on Monday night we walked to the beach, and there embarked on a trawler. We reached the island on Tuesday morning, and tie first thing a few of us did was to see what food we could buy for a change. You can imagine our surprise when we saw cucumbers and tomatoes for sale. We bought them and also eggs, mulberries nuts, wine biscuits, rice, custards. and various other dainties, and then wended our way to the tents that were allotted to us, and there started a picnic." After describing in detail this luxurious meal, Private Payne says he and his comrades lived in similar "style for the three days, and concludes his "letter with a regretful remark that " there is no more news."