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 on the infested ground. They therefore requisitioned for these articles but were refused! Some Surgeon General on Headquarters Staff at Imbros refused sanction in a letter which for infantile futility was the climax of red-tape stupidity. The document should be preserved to explain the sort of thing which make some of us lose faith in the Army regime. Here was a man away from the conditions having the final word against experts on the spot. And he recommended "tangle foot papers & strings" to combat the evil! Fact! Why if the whole of Anzac was plastered & festooned with them there would have been enough uncaptured flies left to blacken Imbros!

The rations in early days were decidedly rough. We had some scores of consecutive meals on bully-beef & hard biscuits cheese & jam. And such jam. In England I saw the factory from whence issued that concoction which of the consistency of water masqueraded as 'apricot jam'. The building was still standing though I had heard many