As the Turks seemed anxious to bury their dead, and as human sentiment
and medical science were both of one accord in favour of such a course,
I sent Major-General W. P. Braithwaite, my Chief of the General Staff,
on May 22, to assist Lieutenant-General Sir W. R. Birdwood, commanding
the Army Corps, in coming to some suitable arrangements with the
representative sent by Essad Pasha. The negotiations resulted in a
suspension of arms from 7.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. on May 24. The procedure
laid down for this suspension of arms was, I am glad to inform your
Lordships, correctly observed on both sides.
The burial of the dead was finished about 3 p.m. Some 3,000 Turkish
dead were removed or buried in the area between the opposing lines.
The whole of these were killed on or since May 18. Many bodies of men
killed earlier were also buried.
On May 25, with the assistance of two destroyers of the Royal Navy, a
raid was carried out on Nibrunesi Point. A fresh telephone line was
destroyed and an observing station demolished.