TOLD IN LETTERS FROM GALLIPOLI

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2488, 15 June 1915, Page 5

TOLD IN LETTERS FROM GALLIPOLI

MACHINE GUNS ON RED CROSS ( STRETCHERS Sydney, June 14. Chaplain Robertson writes from - Ugypt: There is no end to German - treachery They shouted, 'Cease fire! lnc stretcher-bearers are coming.' They i were stretcher-bearers, but on the stretchers were machine guns. Thev i' our dressing sheds and hospital R —— — - ALLEGATIONS OF TURKISH ATROCITIES (Rec. June 14, 9.15 p.m.) Sydney, Juno 14. iue newspapers are deluged -with sol- _ d'ers letters. There are conflicting alj. legations of TurldsTr'''* atrocities and _ mutilations. One writes"The Turkish t omen and children put the finishing . touches on our wounded. The Turks . captured a wounded bugler, cut out 'his tongue, and sent him back to our iines tn show their handiwork; "A sailor had both his legs cut off, and mutilated in an unmentionable manner." , Another states that the New Zea- ' ii mw 11 P n slw > al <d now nil 111-feelmg between them and the Australians should be over. "They 3 couldn't do too much for us." ; SEASIDE CAMPER & FOOTBALL J WASTER c 5 . . . Sydney, June 14. . An officer, writing from Alexandria, , after describing the cheerfulness and t the impatience to_ return to the firing f line of the Australian wounded, adds;— 5 "But you should hear their opinion of , seaside campers, football wasters, and • BU mi you'd blister your ears." l Iko letter finishes: — ,l l will maintain j. everywhere that one trained Australian _ is equal to three of any otlier trained men."