Cannot discover what is in the air – are we waiting for the Spring

19th November [1915] Friday

Another cold night. Moon nearly full. Big guns heard at sea for ¾ of an hour 7.45-8.30. Morning mist too thick to permit us to see anything. Took early morning parade. First morning I funked a bathe.

Very quiet day. Pay parade. Route march. Soccer match Sgts and Cpls D Coy. v. LCpts D Coy. Sgts won 3 nil.

Looks as though settled here for a long while. Cannot discover what is in the air – are we waiting for the spring, or for the Greeks to join in or going to let the French work their own show in their own dog-in-the-manger fashion. We hear here that the French have taken up the only line of railway and refuse to allow us to send anything up by it.

Anderson returning from Salonika brings the rumour that the authorities are uneasy at the disquiet in Egypt.

Dempster now brings the rumour that our own people were in doubts about what the Greeks were up to last night and drew up 10 British and 10 French warships in a crescent ready to open fire on the town. A pleasanter sight for myself I cannot imagine!

Rumour of loss of mailboat denied.

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