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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2600, 23 October 1915, Page 7

i A tribute' to the Turk is paid bv Trooper Trevor W. Stringer, of tho Auckland Mounted Rifles, son of Mr. Justice Stringer, in a letter to his rather, tho writer, who is returning to Now Zealand wounded, asks his father to contradict statements that have beon made maligning Turkish soldiers. Ho states that those who have been figlit"'S against him admire and even liko the lurk, and that anyone who lias been to Aiiaae will vouch for the following facts:—That the Turk is bravo and tenacious; that he lias never shelled the hospital ship, tho Red Cross stations, nor the flags; that ho gavo tho Allies twelve hours' notico to remove a Red Cross station on tho beach boforo shelling; that he has dressed tho wounds of tho men who liavo fallen in fighting against him, and in one case wounded men to an outpost of the Allies; that a. postcard received in Cairo from two Australian prisoners in Constantinople states that tlioy are boing treated well; stud thud ''tcniblu" .>8 a misnomer for tha Turk,