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<p class="page" id="a5658023">[Page 23]</p><p>There are about 60,000 men here, and some die every day, In fact the biggest fatigue is employed in digging graves. Two New Zealanders were shot for the rape the other day. Men die, and are reported killed in action etc, Life is valued very cheaply here, and the sooner the war is over the better I should like it. The system of the army is absolutely rotten. Today is Sat. 20th May and we are a bit more settled down. It comes in our drill to shift camp every now and again, we have shifted once and by 9 am they make a mess of it too. It took us from 5 p.m. until 12 noon to shift 900 yds in the military style, we could have done it in an hour our own way. The tucker is getting a bit better now. Last night we were on picquet (or picket) at the Cinema Show. We saw Charlie Chaplin and Allasdin and Lamp, The Heading and Sub Headings were in Egyptian, One can get the gist of it when reading but I blamed if one can understand it, when delivered by word of mouth, We saw the Tropical Bagel and saw George Robey, and Seymour [indecipherable]on it</p>