GALLIPOLI GRAVES.
LONDON, July 23. Colonel C. Hughes, (Officer-in-Cha rge of the Graves on Gallipoli), interviewed by a representative of “The Sun,” said that burials had been completed on Gallipoli. The bodies were gathered in small cemeteries, each of which would be- walled and ringed by r Australian trees, which are now flbufisliing in a nursery. Each grave would be slabbed in the ancient English style. There would be no standing headstones, because the peasantry was always armed, and liable to take shots at any prominent white object. The Y.M.C.A. intends to erect a hospital at th e straits, either at Kolia, or Kilid Bahr, opposite Chanak, which is only 1350 yards across the straits, and at which seaport large vessels call. From there visitors can ferry over and take a motor on a good road to Anzac Cove, which is only 20 minutes’ run.
The Y.M.C.A. has been greatly assisted by Lady Doughty Wylie, whose husband waß killed at Holies in the landing. His widow is living in Constantinople at present. She speaks Turkish lluently, and is, on popular terms at Kolia headquarters.
Australians and New Zealanders, numbering 17, all men who enlisted in 1914 and 1915, and some wlio enlisted after the landing, and were formerly of the First Brigade, became impatient and visited a. village, whence armed horsemen had:, decamped. They toid the headman that they came on a friend ly .mission, but .if he looked ior trouble he tvould get it jn .the neck. This, was explained,... through .the Greeks, and Colonel Hughes agreed to place flags on the motors, whereupon the Turks praised the Australian flag as being both English and Turkish, the latter because of the stars.
Working parties are sometimes fired one ,but latterly villagers have been warned, and sentries are posted. Headquarters are protected by wire crossing the main road towards the Porte, and machine-gunners are posted in armed motor launches. Trouble always follows the visits ol Turkish Nationalists’ officers from Asia and Thrace.
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