BREAD FOR "BRICKS."

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 7, 30 April 1920, Page 4

BREAD FOR "BRICKS."

All "old inhabitants" of Gallipoli will rememher the armistice in May, 1915, when for a whole day not a sliot was fired at Anzac, and friend and foe wandered about the landscape trying to imagine that the war was but a myth. Advantage was taken of the temporary cessation oi hostilities to get a closer acquaintance witli friend Abdul, and many little conferences were held. Now, Abdul had a plentiful supply of bread, which we sadly iacked, and he was quite willing to exchaiige tlie staff of life with our substitute Spiller and Baker's "roofing tiles" and "dog biscuits." You can lay odds w,e exchanged readily, and at the same time fervently hoped for an armistice about every second day. The sequel came a. few nights later. A solitary Australian was on duty at the end of a trench on Pope's Hill, just about 30 vards or so from .the enemy. Berhaps he was thinking of home and mother, perhaps of Cairo— I know not — but suddenly he was brought down to earth by the sight of a dusky face peering over the trench about six inches in front of him For a moment of terror he expected mafish," but the visitor was seeking jOT for himself. The Turk passed over a loaf of bread, with a wliisper : "Mistah, give it biscuit, very good."