TURKS MOWN DOWN

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2632, 30 November 1915, Page 8

TURKS MOWN DOWN

MAGNIFICENT MACHINE-GUN WORK. Captain. Wallingford, the famous rifle shot and musketry instructor, in a private letter written from Ras-el-Tin Hospital, Alexandria, to.a friend in Christ-church, say's "We had some terrible fighting from August G to, 13. The Fifth Reinforce; nients in time to take part in the finish. The machine-guns did splendidly,. , The Canterbury guns are still intact^.but nearly all the personnel went out, including poor Conway, who.did very well. I would like to give youl a full history of it, but of course it would take too long. Ten of our guns literally mopped up'the'Turkish counter blow. Ab luck would have it, we were all ready. I wbb sitting repairing one of the Canterbury-guns, and was just finishing, when, looking about (300 yards a«ay we saw the Turks going down the slope in beautiful lines, and from 3000 to 6000. While the guns wero ranging, 'they were coming down, and when they got to a point .which was a perfect .enfilade wo let the poor 'beggars have it. It was such a sight as I had dreamt of,, but never expected to see. When they arrived into the 'death zone' they went down and never rose, and line after line followed them, ft was magnificent on their part. There were about 150 in each line. You will notice that Ashmead Bartlett gives the Navy and the Artillery part share iri the credit. They didn't see it. The New Zealand Infantry guns did the trick. lam proud of being a New Zealander, and consider we arc Becomr to none—that is, the Mounted Rifles and Infantry—but of course there are many weak points, and we are likely to go down hill if we are going to exist on our name.' As riflemen I have nothing to complain of. We can always raise' parties of snijpere—not snipers in name only. Now, I don't see why every man in New Zealand should not be graded as a sniper.