GURKHA DEMONS IN BATTLE
STORY OP A GRIM HAND-TO-HAKE CONFLICT. ' By Telegraph—Pi-ess Association—Copyright (Rec. Juno S, r0..'.0 p.m.) London, .Tune S. Mr. Candler (the British Press Correspondent in Mesopotamia), -'describing the light at Deitaisha on April." 13, "1 1.0 Gurkhas fought fiercely, and- dead Turks choked the trenches. Tiiey' \vc"2 either clubbed or bayoneted./ The Turks in the evening counter-attacked with twelve battalions, chiefly h-oops from Gallijuli, the pick of the Turkish army. The Gurkhas held them for twenty minutes, but could not get ammunition quick enough, and fell back. "The fight then became a promiscuous . melee, and the killing was donn with baio-. nets, rifle-butts, and revolvers, tome ol our field gunners lired chinch shots, vh.-cb rattled the Turks, who retired,' while cut howitzer Lattery swept -Them. Fifteen hundred dead 'lurks in this sector were counted next morning. Thvie'thousand were killed during the fight.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2792, 9 June 1916, Page 5
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145GURKHA DEMONS IN BATTLE Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2792, 9 June 1916, Page 5
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