FIGHTING AT THE DARDANELLES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1420, 6 July 1915, Page 3

FIGHTING AT THE DARDANELLES.

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A SLEEPLESS NIGHT. “Night came at hist, and as the sun dipped beyond the Gulf of Snros the rille lire slackened perceptibly and finally came only in titful bursts, these bursts, from whichever side .they came, being cine mostly to ‘nerves.’ Then as was their wont on this and the succeeding nights the Turks started a violent shrapnel fire. Their shell.-, however, were bursting high and their effect for this reason was considerably minimised At the .same nine the enemy oh serration was well conducted and iheir belter fire was well placed by some ob.-ervei o who in the daytime must have been able to see the whom of our base on the beach and nil our trenches. “All that night we got no sleep; about 8 o’clock a fine bur chilling rain began to fall. Added to this most of us were still moist with a clammy dampness as the result of our drenching in the salt water in ‘ the early morning. We lay down as we were, without blankets Throughout the night rifle, fire, continued fitfully, bullets falling all around. By Ibis time, how-' over, we. were quite used to tliis. Ar first you arc inclined tr dnekli when yon hear a bullet whistling overhead, hut there is 110 use ducking, because, before you c-..i;ld dose the bullet would he either pa, t you or through you. With a shell it is ditier cnt. You hear its sereei-h in time, and duck for any cover there may he in the immediate vicinity. The whistle of the .shrapnel bullets is perhaps more uncanny iliac the noise made by an approaching shell. The Queen Elizabeth was tiring shrapnel with bullets abonl the si/.e ol .small eggs. Borne few bullets lell over ns. and we picked tip olhers in ihe abandoned Turkish trenches as we advanced. A 15-inch shell from ‘The f,i//y’ contains 20.000 bnlbls. and as an 18-poniider field gun can eoyeian area of 250 yards by 50 you can imagine how many acres ol ground the shrapnel from the new battleship can diet up with one shot. ON THE LEFT FI.ANN. “We of the (’niiterlniry Bait.ihmi had the left, flank to look after, and though it proved a comparative sinecure on ibis night we had to he (he none ihe less walchl id. This was the position we took tip al niglilfall after regaining the -eatlend nnii- ol Oltr battalion. As was customary wc lood to arms a little bcli.r. l daybreak. .Mmo l immediately the snn rose ihe rifle fire recommenced, A MOVING INI I DENT. “I forgot lo (el! yon that oil (he Simd.iy when 1 was using a range Under 1. was Ihe witness of a. si range and exl raoi dim.ry incident- 'Die range-finder is in ii.-elf a powerful telescope. On our iinniediate front, that is on the lelt. ol our whole p.nitioil, (here were two ship’s hoar- on Ihe bench. In a dead man sal in a dejected attitude wilh an arm dmnvn over the gunwale. In the other boal, hell a mile from ns. were a grcal many fioili.-; Australians. .Minimi her lli.-re were limit dead men (here- or at lea-i >o we Ilioimln iit the time. As I looked Ihroiigh lie- gla - I could see the body ol an apparently d--ad sailor lying in a- most hie like altitude, lib white- face turned a- it li,- w.-re ga/.ing lo wards our posilion, his ehin ie..img on ids hand. 1 thought hllle more about (hi- sad scone until the Monday alieric.on, when, about 3 o’clock, 1 bad another look through the glass. Then Law that liie -ailoi had changt (I his position and was Ivina-hi-white cap still on Ids head -with In- laee fnrned lo the .-ky. Ten miiiiile- later 1 .was thrilled lo .-.t a figure del.eh il-ml from Ihe ghastly heat) and hobble along .Hie beach only lo collapse- a lew yards away. The niomeni he had moved a Turkish sniper had opened lire on him. and I could sec the splash ol several Imllels m till' water afler they had pa-l linn. With four men I went- along llm beach in try and get him mil. lull in; had not more than a. hundred yard- Irom mir ireneh when the sand ami sioites near u- began I" vise in dust in response lo a 'linki-h In i '•lade. Oilier bullets vvldzz.d pasi ns into ihe «ea. We (hen decided il was let O' g" about our job more warily, -o iiiiiniii;; ■from cover to cover yc gol willnn haihtig distance of the man I had -een. lie wa-shot’-through both knees and w.i- clicmv but almost done. There were I.mr others he said, out (here, in the heap, -tin alive. The night, before there hail been eight. Ind four of these had not lasted lo dawn. All this time wo had been drawing die hie of the Turks, and we dared nol approach the wounded man, who was lying rigln in file open, for fear of attracting the lurIhcr attention of the Turks to him. B> degrees he managed lo crawl to cover and ,W(T got, him back.’’ . . “\Vas this incidenl ivporl"d, I could nol help asking. “Oh, no,” replied the corporal, sinning no semi-pavalvsed leg into an easier position by pushing it with his sound one. Dial was only an ordinary affair. Nidi incident-; ■wore happening every few initnilc,-. M"'" were scarcely enough cannon within our lum during those first lew days when the Antralian and New Zealand Army ( orps .-formed and held the heights nl India depe. Every five minutes deeds were pi rlonm-c that were worthy of, the highest d.vctaiioi known to military autln.i il le-. Liu.kim; j>ack on those first days one has nigh! mai elike visions, out ol which sta.nd cleat i.jihi of the most, consummately cool perlru-maiiee-. Toiling up a slope in the early hours ol the morning we, came across a wound'd Antralian officer. He was -hot through tie jaw* and had halted to have a- rc-s hail way from Ihe firing hue to flic dri-sinii station. He was a.glia.-llv ohjeel as lie -ai there with a oaricailire of a. grin on In' pooi shattered face, but lie had all hi- wit- al, .m liim, and he told us in delad where vve v."n most wanted, and vvhal lo do wh.-n we got there, and tlion he mereilnlly lainled jii-l aa stretcher party came up lu nceive him. Everywhere it was the same, and may gol positively blase about such iusidenD. Bur.fy there could not be a betler ex.imiile ol pure coolness than the lollovv ing Jnt nh ni which I myself wilnes-ed. A New /.a iander was (-arrying a large hi-ttul, tin Ini of water to the firing line, and he had Ir ijass over a very open space where l!e> hid ets were positively raising- the dii-t. Dm bullet neatly punctured a hole in the vv.ilei tin, which he was carrying on his shoulder Now. an ordinary man would al least havi taken cover. Instead, he pip hoih hanrb up and stopped the holes where the waiei was going to waste. He eonlinm-d hi- ad vance. and reached u- wilh almost all tin precious fluid. Every evening ihe Turk' encrgei n ally shelled tlie beach where vve had our ambulance dressing stations. Consequently the wounded were subjected to a fierce liiapnel fire as the strelclicr parlies went along lh. foreshore. This was tun much ol a good thing, and ,it vva.s remedied by a-t rein ion - si.a 11 "11 1cer {(‘olonel Cliaylor). who got logiihei •U fatigue parly and himself, imnrd with a shovel, built a well constructed path und.-i Cover of the sheltering sandhills near lie beach. , On Wednesday all Ihroiigh the big all ark the word kepi coming back' lor more ammunition, more water, and more ivinloce■jnents. As tin l fresh men made llieir way Jip the steep slopes they met an inlerrninable string of wounded coming down to .the beach. And had the sight been vouchsafed us a lew m.mllis belore vve Would doubtless till have bad tlie spilling knocked out of ns for a moment or two Sit least. As it was. 'however, these cheerful cripples put new heart inio Ibe moil, and they went into net ion all the more determined to make good. One man I saw shot through tlie groin pulling lnmBclf along in a silting sliding, Scuffling down a slope. "’I hats pretty Tough work,” 1 said, smiling, lint he answer was nnexpoeled, *’il s damn had lor my pants,” he said cheer I idly. At one stage a few hand grenades began to arrive in onr I rent-lies, I hey vvere of two varieties, and there was one kind ilia! jjmelt vilely and seldom went oil. Iho other went olf so quickly that one didn t Jiavo time to know whether il smelt or not. One of this latter species landed in a trench alongside a corporal ol the \NelJington Battalion (A. H. Hiper). , etill an inch of fuse to burn, so he held tl quietlv until it was almost gone—anil then threw''it back. Grenade-throwing at that sector stopped from that moment, “i hut s ghat’s meant by surprise effect,’’ said tlie corporal, as he resumed his rifle. Men do queer things when under exeitejnent. Once I saw an Australian clash cut after a Turk with the bayonet. He got him, too, but ho tickled him with it first by way of preparation! Over on the right on the Sunday a panting bluejacket (now in khaki) flung himselt down beside me, whispering, “Give* us a smack at ’em, Tommy, afore I goes back ,to me boat.” And he emptied two of my clips at the green bushes opposite before be went back to explain ’why he had kept the cutter waiting for him. BRAVE STRETCHER-BEARERS. ( The stretcher-bearers alone ..lid tleeds of heroism that would have q.me credit to any army in the world. I saw one chap climb out of a trench during heavy fire, and, taking advantage of all the cover he could, get a wounded man under the arms and drag him back to the trench. Halfway* back he was shot through the arm. He then hooked Ids sound hand through dho man’s collar and got him into the trench And mind you. he did all this quite cooly and calmly. There was no mud dash about it. He used his brain all the Jiwe. .UihU» all conditions the stretcher*

hearers vvere magnificent. Even as they were earrving the wounded along the beach to the base they drew the fire of the Turks. During the course of the afternoon they brought the other four men that I told von ahont back from tlie heap of (lead These men had been lying there from’ half-past 4 on the Sunday morning until the same hour on Monday afternoon. I had better not give yon details of their long vigil. THE GENS AT WORK. We bivouacked in the trenches and in holes in (he eiitf, and that evening Ihe warships below ns began a terrific bombardment. Shells shrieked coniinnonsly head and bnrsl nor far from ns. Eor a while the Turkish batteries would be silenced. but in half an hour or so they would open up again from an entirely different position. They methodically -helled our wounded as they vvere being taken down to the dressing, stations, and also the boats conveying the wounded to the hospital .--.hips. Several of our men -lightly wounded vvere killed on Ihe beach after havingbeen brought down from the firing line. The -hips replied, hut it wa- very difficult in Incide the Turkish push ions, well screened as !hey were in such di/lindl country, (due of onr ships in pailiiulnr was lousing ..li broadsides almost continuously. At one lime when her lire was Im-ns-ed on a ridge nil onr left front I -aw an object turning over and over- in the air filly feet up. B was a Turk’s leg. 1 could see ihe bool, a bit (if a trouser leg, and a trail ot unwinding puttee as tliis particular Turk was performing Ins la si and snniewha I itldel irate high-kicking act. One would think that siieh fire must be nlierly demoralising, but ihe enemy look a lot of shilling. Sn ireniendoiis was Ihe cannonade lhal it sh""k down Ihe ini rih in onr trenches and deafened ns in a few minutes, ihongii vve were a considerable di-la nee from (he ships, hearing with the snibers. lln i lie Monday men ware -till Line i u-hed ashore, and a- they came I hey vveiil si inight inio the tiring line. I hir po nititi wa- gradnallv eonsolidal.-d. Maler and ammunition Were lo lie had in plemy. and onr t "inmnnieali"ii-. were re-iored. Bniper-w-ere -illl responsible for many of l ho , asnall ic-, and 1 -aw one queer im-i.l. nl. A ,-ni|iei had been vvorrving n- dm ing liein.iriiing-, and two Au-iraiian- vi.w.-d in Inti.l I.i 1111 ;ivi■ lli'il limy w.aild lalk the beggar, and stalk him lliev did. 1 h.-y h-ti the trench and crnwl.-d on ail i"iii:' Hilo lie-lii-ii and dii appeared, Bre-enlly Re-y ic appeared, on,- ol them w.iiring a Diiti ii rap- Tliev were lueeiiig; -oniething- iin-"i|e-ii lie- bn- he- and I ley pushed il gem ly .-.V'-r the sleep clili. This wa- ihe hiper. "Did von gel him allrigld t we a-k.-d when il ev I nine lank lo tlie ireneh. “Oh. v. l -, we gol him.' lle-y lephed. "an wm ill.ln I hold li" bloomin' po.-,-morii in. either. He kielod a- he w etii oV.-r the . till 1 ’ Ai aliolla-r lage of the lighling I saw- Iwo -nlpei- who had been di-lodg.-d from 110 ir hiding place lii.-li down towards mir ihe.- in lie- dii.cii.ai of one of ihe dre-'-ing -lalioii--. ’llm lii-l was w. nun led and e"lla|ee<l -one- vstnls short of it. The -i i olid had gone Bei-. rk and i!i-pl:u.--<l aU llm brav i-r.v of fana! iei-m. \n Ansiralian -Inek him wnli a -Imalhknife, and -lopped hi .nw aid i n-h. THE SUM’S AT Will! lx, 'him Queen Eli/ahelli oil one lie. a-i'ili, ailing wilh aeroplane , mii in d. said, a Tui'hl-li liah-porl in llm sliaii of llm Dar dan.die- seven mile. away, and oiii ol -ighi bevond llm hills on ihe mainland near Gaha Tepe. . This she did vv il li Imr t bird slid. ,-liihing llm li.in: pore amidships, li was imi known il I Imi'e vveie ani I roops on hoard. Tld' game, however, wa- nol al logihei- otic- sided, for 1 11 ;i pf i--1 h "gall I" luir- 1 round ahoiii and over llm Ira i.-poi a■■ and wan.ldp-. Ai niglil lime one ol dm -hip- was using |,er seari lilighl ju I ale sal of "111- I l i-Ilelli'- on some ojlell gloulld ill lioiil ni a Turkish position, and early in dm in lining dii- lighi Inonghl lire upon oiir -hiii from some heavy gnus, eidier on dm 11, •. ■ 1 1* ■ll nr Ol! die shore oil dm oilier side id the hid". Tl enielllloll- eolllllills of mill 1’ hi.ni dm explosions of these lag shell' i'o.-e high almve llm ship, hill luekily she vv a' not 1 1 iI. Sim promptly swilelmd mil her ligl'l, hoisted her anehor. and sleaned ■lowlv away lo an.tiller po'dioii foi all dm wmld like an i111 1 i:11;111 1 lad.v who has I ..(b-liih-d liv oiimoim Imneadi Imr imlite. Ili’ir -hip,- and gnus wen- all painted in I lie v.oiidesl manner. Il -eeined as il -nine po I ini|ne-si.misl gone mail, had been al work' on diem. They were lovered wilh great -labs of Inovvq green, yellow, and ativ old eo!i nr that ev.n a i oilier would be a-hameil in {ml mi. The gnus are al-o ill< 1 1 -; ■rititill ;i 1 e I v dahheil all over with a variegaied colouring. The whole thing makes a blur ,-o dial it i- dillnull lor an enemy lo locale the guns or dm vulnerable pails of dm ship. Him of llm -hips had a wave inn-1 art isl ieally painted on her bow so dial even when she was slal binary dm seemed, a I a dl-lanee. lo be steaming al full ,-peed. The field gnus also in lidmodern warfare are Healed wilh variegaied colouring. 1 1 i- on dm principle on wide') Naiiire has i lollmd Ihe ■ zebra, ihe liger, and die giiall'e for proleelioti against an '"'"a TREMENDMIS A‘l tack. Regarding Tile-day —t hough I mn.-l have go(m all tliiongh the lighling on dial day - my mind is now a blank. < >11 Wednesday there was ti 1 1 eiti.-iiiloiis attack. The enemy tried lo turn mn left flank. They had received reiiilort-eineiil - tlm night before and idiom 0 a.m. dm lire became lerrilie. (hir right wa' eiiiiipa ra liv elv safe, hut on llm left ahoul halt a mile from Ihe heaeh dm enemy hiiniehed eoiilpany aller company 1 oil tlili ■ >t i afler hal liilioii, ai ..nr posilion, lil we mii-f hiive been opposed hv at lea-i from two lo three brigade.'. Machine guns played an important, pan in the operations. The Turk' were led by Germans and had a -tiilening of Merman soldiers. They frequently ii-ed flat-nosed and explosive ImlJi t-. A eapmred Gettunn ollii-er hud the night before promised ns some hot gun fire, and sure enough vve now began to get il. ’['heir shrapnel began to he mosi ell'eetive, and on several occasions they found and maintain! d the range on onr howitzer gnu etnplni eiimnl on lie* heaeh. They seemed p. have Inonghl at least three six-gun batteries into til l ion against our one howitzer hat tery of four guns, which wa- under the j let -otui I snpei vi-i.iti of die Btigndiei- of I li-• Field Artillery, Colonel (.!, Al. Johnston. Thus Brig,id.• 11 e;tl l l[nart>■ t s and indeed Army I leadquarters were -nhjeeled I" -liritpiie] lire, it ltd the harassed -bill had no place to go wlmre in qniei and safely tlmy could work tail ile-ir liutiiul -elmim-.. Not oniv was this so. Iml on (icrasimi-. at niglil the Tm Ici-li -nipei s petieiratetl outlines end look pol shot-- a( the pl.iee where the slalf was sit)vposed lo he. Qnr howitzer lire in ilel ti nil ol a belief largel was n-ed tit.t it: I v again-l dm inlamrv iiiinmili.’iiely "p)io.-eil ions, and "fie,, i!,,. ..hell- bur-l just in front of onr own trenches and nn eoinf.it t 1 1*1 .V clo.-e A | lines il Wa,. pos -ible to see men blown from tlm opposing ireneh or others ha.-lilv leaeim; limir po i--1 ion. Willi I Ini r s.econdary a riini inenl llm -hips niit'l have played havoc wilh dm Ttirki-h re.-erves and rein I'm-cement - a- they eiime up. THE SEA BEANES. Away out in the oiling between onr shore and riie Island of linbros that weird-look-ing ship die .Ark Roval lav at anelior, or moved up am! down as occasion required. She was a s( range-look lug craft llm fiisl of Iter kind —Iml obviously wonderfully useful. Her one mast" and one funnel are placed right all so lli.it her forward deck is clear of all obslrnelions save for iwo large sleam derricks. On tliis Hear spate were the hydroplanes lhal she mothered. From where vve vvere we eon Id see derrick swing round, lift up and lower it into the vvaler. ’Mien presently vve emild see the graceful machine skimming ihroiigh the calm sea al perhaps 40 miles an lionr helore it "lifted ’ and soared away over (imposition. The noise of the exhaust, no mailer how high the plane flew, was clearly audible. The two floats henealh the main planes looked for all Ihe world like (he vvehlied leer of some gigantic sea liinl. The smoke irom the exhaust trailed behind in a long while streamer as the plane soared in graceful spirals, or else climbed straight to a sate altitude beyond, winging her wavover dm .IVninsulu on onr front. Several times the Jerks took put shots at her, and the bursts of shrapnel, like .small pull's of cotton wool, could he seen below her. Often we thought she must he hit, hut appurentiv these shots were ineffective. Occasionally these plane reconnaissances were conducted mider great difficulties, ami on one occasion a plane returned to home and mother with 28 bullet holes in her wing- surfaces. Sometimes a plane would come back so high up that even with our glasses vve could not say whether she was hostile or not. The Turks were using the familiar Gorman Tanlte, which, as the name signifies, is made with wings akin to those of a dove. The front edges of the planes tire bent backwards like the wings of a bird, and the back edges are serrated. Frequently when a Turkish bombardment was at its height one of onr planes would soar away to seek out the enemy’s gun position, and then tlie bombardment would cease automatically. . Apparently the Turkish guns were particularly well handled, and the observation post, wherever it was, must have boon a good one. Away on our left was a village marked on the mail as Siveloh, and there vve could see a mosque with a tall minaret. It was well within range, and later casting- all scruples aside, it was laid low and the village set

on fire. Tliis aripuvontly npsol 11 1 0 calculations, ’.'mil flu* work of 1 In* Turkish gunners to some extent, lint only temporarily. AN OBSERVATION POST. Fm up at Cape Suvhi, winch is the southernmost point of a large suit-water lagoon 1 could see through the rangefinder a lait. some cultivated ground, and wellconstructed earthworks above the beach. Watching more closely I could see a string of camels, some horses, and then 15 or 2U men moving ahont between the- hut and the earthworks. If this was as 1 suspected an observation post—it was all that was necessary to control (he Turks fire. Inlounution regarding it was immediately sent to headquarters, and a warship proceeded slowly up the coast to investigate. Wherher she Inambarded the position or not I cannot tell—it is one of the things that f have forgotten. Every now and again word came down our lines that the British 29th Division had made good progress and would connect with our lines. At one time we were (old definitely' when to expect them. Away down south we could see their transport ■ and In or another battle raging, but up till time 1 left tlies bad noi got m tomh with ns. except perhaps I ,y signal. Since llicn I believe they have joined up. Aevei in wailnie had ativ 1 loop.- more anxiously looked for snppin i than we did al that time. The 291 h Division were driving the Turlcs ft um Ihe south-w-M against ns and we wen acting much in the same way as a groyne thrown out into a river aim turnin■l till ; human ride inio narrow; i- eonti„e. while at Ih.e .-ame lime saving the 1,-ink 1 n l !ij nd. As tin Turk- came norm the ~,ea to, lie 111 was h-sern-d. bur I do not think lll,it there v.a-- a.;\ preeipilrle re neal on their part. Indeed, re •'.■emeuis -•(•iiifi 1 to arrive jn>l as they wen. wanted. A SIB AND E I’d. B 1 Al„ During hills in ihe filing burial I'a'lms I,,mi oiir ba Ila linn weie eiu out. and ia|>- ! in '1 'a-.ior, 'of Nel-.ni I - nice wounded). ~|itl.l ‘r. it is give lleeeti i burial lo -nine 4H \i'i iValiam vilio bad fallen in tin- original landing. B was a pail.ene scene. Down near tlm beach large graves bad bull dug. a, id a- i lie bodies were lowered into them I be chaplain read the military burial sen me. bis voice drowned evei'v now and lien hv . of -bell or rilie lire. There on ihe far awav graves where llc-e colonial -ohlmrs are -baring llieir |:isl .-I- P -n,a I wooden i-i c.s e-. , I,me of t licin. a ppi'opna I civ enough, made old of the wood of ainmiinll ion h,"."-. |. II how Piivale So and -o laid down his me .j x ihiucand niib - Irom In- home lighting ~ foe i ba, a few day- previously he had not the slightest inleve-l in. Thee grave,- arc pal Ini ic in i heir loneliness. They will never lv -ecu bv imv ol ihe n-lalive- oj ihe men buried dibre. and all ibal a nmilier or a I'allc rin Allsi folio or New /ealand will re;i- ;j 111 i 111 -) 11 < i Will *'!“ II I'IIIIm-llc ilil.r collceiio.l fI o 111 111 e p-.ckel- of llieir -oil. The chain.lill colli I led lie -c mb'- - Irolll one p,n-iiaps a pipe, from another a few Id l it.- or lie- tainilv photograph-, or Irom slid amain r, a mail’d pay hook, often as not Pained \v 1 11 1 hi- own lilui.il. Ihe la-1 tiling | It 1 rll (■( I(! h• f I" LMMDR .tl.I nil II JMuMIIB Is^anc l, uirlt Miijnr :i Ucvw a nl.- M-vutvly w 111 i 11111 ■( 1, lln <l<ll • > net know uluti h:ip[j. iMti lo nit’ iinv Hint. 1 than 1 do. When I tegaintd con-cioiisiies- alter a long lime I Ua- oil a lav pilal ship, qiiile deaf, and with a -pine ilia: fell like a red-hoi poker. On the ship I lost c-u ns.ii;l I-I less several limes, and a 1,.. in the hospital in (‘aim. For live ila\ - and niglil- -le.-p wa,- impossihlc. I udnld not like to I ell \ on abonl those night' oil the 11 c-p 11 a I slop- ' 111 i s W lib I ears ill his eyes I ia li not I nil mv-elf to ,-peak ol I belli jllsl tel, \l ibis si age a line-locking young Aucklander olf In a cot lll ii i - ii l ll in the Black Wap It came up o, tell n- t lint a new li'l of ca -iiall ic- bad come in. Aiiioiigs) the killed wa- the name of tlm corporal s dearest friend, lie gol up and walked away. And 1 lial was I lie end of his ..lory.