ASHMEAD BARTLETT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2740, 7 April 1916, Page 9

ASHMEAD BARTLETT

Messrs. J. and N. Tait announce that Mr. E. Ashmead Bartlett will give his lecture, "With the Anzacs at the Dardanelles," in the Town Hall on Thursday next and Saturday, April 13. Mr. Bartlett, in his position of official representative of the British Press, was table to obtain first-hand information of the operations at the Dardanelles, and the many incidents which/he witnessed, from the time of the . landing onwards, will form the subject of Iris lecture. In addition, ,Mr. Bartlett will review the present state of the war on all fronts. Mr. Barttctt's dispatches describing the wonderful heroism of the Australasian troops at Gallipoli were one of the sensations of the war. Considerable interest will be taken in his lectures. Mr. Bartlett has been a war correspondent in all the great campaigns of recent years—the Graeco-Turkish, South African (as an officer), Russo-Japanese, French and Spanish campaigns, Morocco, the Italian war in Tripoli, and tho first and second Balkan conflicts. Ho was on the Majestice when eho was torpedoed! To illustrate his lectures the war correspondent will show a series of unique views and maps. The box plans will open at tho Bristol tomorrow morning. .