IN TURKISH HANDS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 21, 23 September 1915, Page 2

IN TURKISH HANDS.

"MORE LIKE GUEST THAN PRISONER." T'nder the heading, "Somewhere in Asia Minor, July 15." Lieutenant Can Australian), who was reported missing, writes to his mother:— "1 am in a Turkish internment camp, somewhere in Asia Minor. J am quite well, and my arm is almost better. I am with a lot of other officers. There are some from the submarine Uls, and also some from the Australian'submarine AE2. We also have French and Russians here with us, and we form a lively I am learning the Turkish and French languages". A submarine officer teaches me Turkish, and a French officer teaches me French. When I come home 1 will be talking all sorts of gibberish. "I am living real well, but it is a lazy life 1 study most of the day, and iplay bridge or chess at night. It was hard luck feeing captured within seven weeks of getting a commission, as it did not give me a chance; but I did my bit, and now. am tied up till the end of the Avar. "The Turkish officials are exceedingly kind and courteous. Most of the time I was at their headquarters, and ill Constantinople was more like a guest than a prisoner."