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COLONIALS "DID THE IMPOSSIBLE"

"MAGNIFICENT INFANTRY" TRIBUTES TO OUR BOYS Sydney, June 9. The "Sydney Morning Herald's" correspondent with the Australians endorses a French naval officer's tribute that—"No troops in the whole, world could possibly have done better than those magnificent Australian and New Zealand infantry at the Dardanelles. Tliey did the impossible." The correspondent adds: "When the whole tale is told the world will see how richly our boys deserved tho tribute. Not only Uio Australian Light Horse, but tho First Brigade of New Zealand Mounted Riflles offered to go to the front as infantry." Colonel Eyrie expressed tlhe dominant thought of the men in saying: "My brigade is mostly bushmen, and they never expected to go gravel crushing; but, if it is neoessaTy, the whole brigade will start to-morrow afoot, if they have to tramp the viola way from Constantinople to Berlin." The "Herald's" special correspondrat in Egypt says: "I heard an Imperial officer who recently returned from Flanders pay a tribute to the Australians and Now Zealanders. He called the Third Australian Infantry Brigade the finest in the whole Allied Armies. They bore tho brunt of the first attacks. Their impetuous, irresistible bayonet charges will bear rich fruit, for the Turks will never again withstand a bayonet charge by the Australasians." German Spies Everywhere, Referring to the thoroughness of the German spy system, 'he says that spies •were on the transports, among the interpreters, and in the depots. They knew exactly the places and hour ,of landing. They learned the bugle calls, and used them with telling effect, but they hate thom. The correspondent says it was. a wicked trick that resulted in the slaughter of so many gallant men. The First New South Wales Battalion was 'holding the line. (splendidly, despite' shrapnel. Maxim, fire, and hand grenades. They repulsed several attacks, and then a message fras passed to attack and capture tho guns in front. Not doubting the genuineness of the ojder, they ooeyed, only, to be met with a fire which told them a trap had been set. Shooklng Mutilations. The most shocking mutilations were practised on the killed and wounded. The Germans promised tlse Turks a, sum for each Briton killed, and identification discs were the proof. It was .a common matter for the ambulance bearers to come across Australians with their tongues cut off, their eyes slit, and with other mutilations, and their identification discs missing. "Big Lizzie." "Wounded men pay an affectionate tribute to the efficiency of 'Big Lizzie,' as they call H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth. I One said: 'While we were landing, tho I "Lizzie" gilded up and down, like an j old hen with chickens. Turkish destroyers tried to cut in, but when the "Lizzie" got a move on they skeddaddled. One was a bit slow, and forgot that "Big Lizzie" could tit at a ,distance of ten mile 9. A shell landed amidships, and it was "Good-night, Nurse."'"

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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2484, 10 June 1915, Page 6

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488

COLONIALS "DID THE IMPOSSIBLE" Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2484, 10 June 1915, Page 6

COLONIALS "DID THE IMPOSSIBLE" Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2484, 10 June 1915, Page 6

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