MS ASHBIEAD BARTLETT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2738, 5 April 1916, Page 9

MS ASHBIEAD BARTLETT

Mr. Ashmeadj Bartlett, who is giving his lectures, "With' the Anzacs. at tlio Dardanelles/' in! the Town Hall, on April 13' and 15, has liad the unique eSpSrience for a correspondent if being captured as a prisoner of war, which was during tbe Graeco-Tnrkish XVori of 1837. He was one of the first 'to Renter Larlssa after the Greek Army had vacated the place in panic-stricken; flight, and gained such evidence of the low morale of the Groefe soldier that Jje |achieved the sensation of the day when lie reported his discoveries to his journal} His, triumph, however, was shortlived, for ho had the misfortuno to be capturdd by the Greeks. Moreover, 'his explanation of his movements was rogarded as jso uiipatlsfactory that he" was nearly being sliot es a spy. It was only his personali papers aid the power of his nntionalityi.tnat satisfied tho Greek Staff that his "(Jeath would be rather undesirable', under the: • circumstances. In his lecture, |Mr. Bartlett will deal with . the whole of I the Dardanelles campaign, frop> thd, early naval attacks until the evacuatiop, and to illustrate various incidents a unique series of views which he took at Gallipoli will bo shown.. He will also review the present state of tho war on all frpats. '.The bo* plan opens at tho Bristol on Saturday morn' ins. ' 1