onous as there
is nothing much doing. Artillery duels are constant, and during the
last few days the naval guns have fired more than usual. Occasionally
a Taube flies over us and drops bombs, but such things are now not
worth noting.

Four new officers joined us yesterday--Captain McLean, Lieutenants
Russell, Campbell, and Hodgkinson, and to-day Lieutenant Fyfe, so that
we now have ten medical men in our unit, or one over strength. Forty
medicos landed at Suvla yesterday, fifteen at Anzac, and fifteen at
Helles, and more are landing to-day. More than enough surely, but all
units must be very short.

The Turks used poison gas to-day for the first time. Tomlinson of the
Lancs., who told me his experience, says it made him feel sick and his
eyes smarted, but his respiration was not affected. One or two men
were overcome by it but none fatally. Curiously the evening before all
our naval and field guns were bombarding Jeffson's Post, the front
line of the Turks on Hizlar Dagh, and on climbing to the top of the
hill behind our camp to see what was doing the smell of chlorine was
well marked, although I was nearly a mile from the above place. The
shells were bursting well over the Turks who had to fly into the open
where our machine-guns got them. (The smell of chlorine probably came
from chloride of lime somewhere near, this being much used as a
disinfectant.)

_October 11th._--The statement that the Turks used gas the other day
now turns out to be false, it was ordinary lydite the Lancs. mistook
for one of the new fangled German devices. My apologies to the Turks.

Yesterday we had a visit from General Sir Julian Byng, our Army Corps
Commander (formerly in the 8th Army, we are now in the 9th). He
roughly inspected our camp, and the C.O. being in undress and unshaved
I had to take the party round. Sir Julian was complimenting the Turks
on their straight fighting.

_October 13th._--A day of intense cold after a still colder night.
Last night while we were at dinner a terrific rain came on suddenly,
and when I got over to my tent it was to find my bed soaked through,
as was almost everything I possessed.

To-day we had a lecture on the hillside by Sir Victor Horsley on
surgical wounds in warfare, mainly of the head. A very good lecture it
was.

This afternoon one of our aeroplanes came down in the Salt Lake. It
was well shelled and must be useless for the present. The two aviators
were seen leaving it amidst a sto