Second Edition. The Dardanelles.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 78, 31 July 1915, Page 6

Second Edition. The Dardanelles.

THE INTENSE HEAT.

Unxtid Press Association. London, July 30,

>The Turks’ guns always pot at the British ships entering or leaving the harbor. The Allies are achieving wonders hi patience, endurance, and organisation. Naval co-operation continues,,. and the ships are smashing villages 'anti wrecking guns, but now it is essentially a land campaign. Operations may seem to progress slowly, but a visit reveals what an immense organisation has accomplished, while the fighting is .on Tt firmer footing, The precipitous cliffs at the lauding stage, which made the name, of the- Australians famous, failed to arouse wonderment after seeing this great pet work organisation. Any defects in organisation would be fatal in this' trench warfare. It is a question whether the snows and frostbite of Flanders are not minor ills compared with the enervating heat and sunstroke. ,Men are. almost knocked out before fighting begins. Turkish prisoners are dejected. This is a hopeful sign, and if the Allies can now press their advantage final success is assured. _ FROM HOflE TO HOLE. [United Pres& -Association.] Loudon. July 30. The Exchange Telegraph Company’s correspondent at the Dardanelles says that this is an invisible war. Sitting on the highest observation one can see nothing of war, although one knows countless men and guns are under his very eyes to get in the buttle for Achi Baba, A long khaki line leaps out of holes, charges a blade gap a few . yards ahead, and disappears. It has ’simply gone from one hole to another, but it means that we have captured the trench. The* guns lengthen their range’, and the second trench is rushed the' safiiri waj, yet not a Turk is visibly,- There is no such luxury as resting; after a sOjounr in the trenches the men’come to the rear. Tjiere is shellfire of- all callibres from Add Baba and the Asiatic coast. Sydney, July 30. Captain Bean, cabling front Gaba Tepe, says: On the lytli we faced forty to fifty grins—about half of thcrii heirig four, six, and eight, with occasionally ten, and eieven-ipchers,. and with a sprinkling of lighter guils, ‘ whose positions were readily changeable. These can be placed within a few hundred yards of our trenches and quickly removed. ,There was also an ancient mortar, Hinging 12-iilch bombs. Tile amount of tunnCllifig done by the Australians and New. Zealanders, may % judged v .{w.Ufe' , wfr have;. already (blown up seventeen mines opposing.' Quinn's Post, in almost every case destroying a Turkish tunnel. The New eZalanders in one day threw 570 bombs from Qniau’s Post, which the engineers have recently altered out of all recognition. FipHT FOW At H i B ABA. [United Press Association.] London, July 30. Benter’s Dardanelles corresporideiit , says that between days of big things we are now getting .little affairs of considerable strategic Significance from little work. Commanding the gully the enemy have maintained an irritating fife since the’*l4th upon the sector of our new position, and it had to’be stopped. French 'seventy-five’s poured a heavy fife into them. In blitzing sunshine, with' a 'whirling gale of dust, the men charged brilliantly and cap- • tured' the position, with heavy enemy losseS.’ Thfee hundred yards of trenches,’ forming an enciente in ori’r new line, were so packed with Turkish dead that they were untenable. This is the sector taken and lost several 1 times during the last big effort. The enemy’s artillery was very active during the assault. SMYRNA BOMBED. [United Press Association.] Mitylene, July 30. Tlie Turks have evidently obtained large supplies of heavy ammunition, enabling them to keep up a sustain- 1 ed artillery fire. ~ ; An Anglo-French aeroplane again attacked Smyrna, and destroyed the gasworks and a petrol depot.