HOME-SICK SOLDIERS.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15087, 2 June 1919, Page 2

HOME-SICK SOLDIERS.

PURCHASE A BABY.

— ' At the lec-ture given by Colonel Guy j n?i ?V J <eceutiy at tlle Wellington Uiris College, some interesting facts' were given by the speaker. Speaking of the work done in and around Jaffa, the lecturer referred to the beautiful Zionist villages, contain, ing from 200 to 500 inhabitants. The ; maps used by- the troops had been prepared by Kitchener in 1872, and asthese villages have been built since: they came as a surprise to the men. I Colonel Powles also mentioned that while the troops were near tne Turkish: colony of Deiran, in December, 1917J a bottle of wine was sent from the Gov- . ernor of the town to the General, with' 'the message that it came from the' people of the oldest colony in the world ito the people of the youngest colony. In referring to the home-sickness the men felt, the Colonel gave an instance of the buying of a baby by the men, which was taken to the camp, but owing to tne difficulty of feeding it on crushed biscuits and condensed milk it had to be returned to its mother. In-i teresting references were made to the remains seen of the work done by the Romans in the formation of roads, building of citadels and amphitheatres, and the erection of strongholds in the I town. . . I