GENERAL ITEMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17657, 21 June 1919, Page 9

GENERAL ITEMS

THE GALLIPOLI GRAVES. TURKS HAVE KEPT FAITH. .LONDON, June 16. Lieutenant Keising, a Sydney architect, has returned from a visit to Gallipoli to report on the graves and battle memorials He strongly denies that the Turks desecrated the Australian graves; on the contrary, Turks have put the Beach and bhrapnel Valley Cemeteries in order adding mounds, lined with stones, to' each grave, similar to our own military cemeteries. i The Australian Grave Detachment aided by maps and .photographs, was able to_ locate almost every grave known to exist when the Anzacs evacuated the peninsula. 1 Though the Turks have destroyed the wooden crosses for, firewood, there are metal crosses and home-carved stones Moreover, the comrades of the fallen often sank pipes with the names of the casualties stamped in the Morse code, this bein? an adaptation of an old Australian trick used in working allotments.— A. and N Z Cable. DISAFFECTION ON FRENCH WARSHIPS. DEMOBILISATION TROUBLES. m ■ P 1 A ? IS ' Jull e 11 "(delayed). (Received June 20, at 7.45 p m ) Part of the navy has returned to' Toulon, still under the complete control of mutineers. It is understood that the flagship, on which the Admiral was taken prisoner, turned her guns upon the Toulon forts, and the men threatened to fire if their demands were not granted It is believed that the events #iim chiefly at securing quick demobilisation.—A and N.Z. Cable.