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Taranaki Daily News, 7 September 1915, Page 8

The flies are the great pest of existence in Gallipoli, writes a soldier. The God of the country is neither Allah nor Mahound, whatever the Sheik-ul-Islam may say to the contrary, but Beelzebub, god of flies, and the filth they beget and spread. Their numbers are amazing. Food is black with them the instant it is set upon the table. They fill tents and shelters with their idiot buzzing, and madden men trying to snatch a halfhour's snooze in their dug-outs in the heat of the early afternoon. They fatten on all the refuse of the army, and on the unburied dead between the opposed trench lines. They pester the living by lighting incessantly on their hands and faces, and making their meals nauseating. They multiply the sufferings of the wounded and spoil the tempers of the hale. Even the strong north-easterly breeze which blows up the strait seems to trouble them but little. They fly in the teeth of it, and when it is too strong for them they are blown out to the ships, where they are almost as great a plague as ashore. Jam, as everybody knows, enters largely in the soldier's menu. Bread and jam or biscuit and jam appear at every meal, and it sometimes requires considerable sleight-of-hand to get the slice to the mouth before the flies are on it, like leaves in Vallombrosa. For this reason khaki-col-ored jams, apricot and so on, are to be preferred for war service, because the enemy shows up upon them. Army contractors, please note. The now famous Dingo Embrocation, or Training Oil, can be bought from the following saddlers:—R. Edwards (New Plymouth), A. J. Kibby (Waitara), Purchas and Son (Urcnui and Uruti), C. Mciili (Ellhaai), E. Crossnian (Tariki and Inglewood), T. C. Street (Okato), T. J. Mildcnhall (Opunake), K. Tobler (Okaiawa), S. Aylward (Whangamomona), Cosgrovc and Co. (Manaia), etc Mr. William Bell, Gill Street, New Plymouth, will tell you how Flunezol cured his 5-year-old child of a severe attack of croup, all within an hour, and after several other remedies had failed. Yet there are still a few people foolish enough to allow themselves to be put off with "something just as good"! Fluenzol saves both your time and your money. Gargle in teaspoonful doses undiluted at fairly short intervals and hold the head well back. Swallow for influenza.

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