OUR LANDING AT GALLIPOLI

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2615, 10 November 1915, Page 5

OUR LANDING AT GALLIPOLI

FROM THE TURKISH SIDE WHAT A CRITIC SAYS WE MISSED By Telegraph—Press Association—OopyrlgW ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.)

London, November 8. The "Times" American correspondent says that Mr. Granville Fortescue's book on the Dardanelles was published on Saturday. It declares:'"A neutral officer with the Turkish army assured me that three divisions disembarked on that fateful day, and after the naval bombardment might have marched triumphantly from the heel to the neck of Galiipoli. A German officer confirmed this, and argued that the loss of tho opportunity stamped those who planned the coup as men of mediocre military calibre. 1 Mr. Fortescue disposes of the tales that the Turks are on the eve of a revolution ijr are quarrelling with the Germans. There is no real shortage of food at Constantinople. Stocks of coal are reserved for the Government, but there is sitill a supply. A light railway has been constructed to a, coalfield since the Allies' submarines blocked the sea route. Mr. Foitescue is emphatically of opinion that there is no real enmity between Briton and Turk; they respect and like one another. He characterises Germany's cleverness in making Turkey 'fight- for her (Germany's) special benef.t as diabolical. [Mr. Granville Fortescue, the American war (orrespondent, who viewed the Galiipoli campaign from the Turkish side, was recently reported to have described the Allies' fear for attacking tlio Dardanelles as "appalling." Mr. Fortescue left collogcat the outbreak of the Spanish American War, and served in Cuba as a member of the Rough Riders. He was wounded. Later, as an infantryman, he served in tho Philippines. In 1904 he graduated at the Staff College, and was given command of a- cavalry troop. A.S military attache with the Japanese Army before Port Arthur, he witnessed the siege. Later he became military aide to President. Roosevelt at the White House. Resigning from the United States Army in 1906, he became a captain and special agent in the Cuban Rural Guard. In 1909 he was spccial correspondent of the London "Standard" with the Spanish Army in the Riff War. Then undertook an exploration of the interior of Venezuela, and the headwaters of the Orinoco River to its mouth. In November of the same year ho was appointed special investigator to tho Pan-American Union, and in 1911 acted as a deleaate to the fifth International Sanitary Congress of tho American States, held at Santiago, Chile Mr. Fortescue was .•{warded a certificate of merit and tho Distinguished Service Medal for services in Cuba, the Spanish War Medal, tho Japanese War Medal, the Philippine Insurrection War Medal, and the Order of the Rising Sun.]