NEW ZEALANDERS IN EGYPT

Southland Times, Issue 17495, 26 April 1915, Page 6

NEW ZEALANDERS IN EGYPT

TOBATHER BECOMING HOTTER ORDER TO MOVE CA_N CELLED. “Wo arc back at Zcitoun again and arc doing divisional training, having a fairly easy time of it,” remarks a member of the fird. Auckland, Regiment in the course of a letter to his parents, written on March 15. "It is beginning to get terribly hot here now, so I hope they move us out of it soon. We were supposed to leave to-day to join the force | that is to attack, and. of course, take I Constantinople, hut the order was cancelled on Thursday .much to our disgust. Now wo don't know when we arc leavj ing or where we are going. We don't do any work during the middle of the day now—that is. from 1 I a.m. until e..m p.m.—except on hig field days, when, of course, wc work all (he time. "Snakes have made their appearance hero lately, and wo have caught tiuilo a number of them. They are Hit long and quite harmless, and. during the hottest part of the day, we find them lying on tho top of hedges, asleep in Iho sun. We had some great fun with the first one we caught. A crowd of men were lying down in the shade, when one of tho fellows threw a snake, into the middle of file gathering. That crowd dispersed at tho double ! There is only one kind of poisonous snake here. It is a small bluish-grey reptile, found in the desert, and its hito is deadly poisonous. “J have just seen a paper with a description of the fighting on the canal It is great ! The fellow who wrote it must have a grand imagination. Wo do laugh over some of the things we see about ourselves in the New Zealand papers. How the yarns start I don't know. Why, I even saw in one paper a statement that some New Zealanders have been stabbed by natives ten- interfering with Egyptian women !