FROM THE DARDANELLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 89, 16 August 1915, Page 8

FROM THE DARDANELLES.

i LETTER FROM A CONNER. Gunner S. E. Pritchard, 2nd Battery, Ist A.F.A. Brigade, attached to the 20th Division Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and brother of Mrs L. Riera. of Stratford, writes a chatty letter to his father, Mr A. Pritchard, of this town, as follows; “From information gleaned from some of our Turkish prisoners the war is not popular with them, and they are all downhearted. All T can say is that T hope 1 am not around if ever he gets real mad. The Turk can fight all right, and come to think of it our chaps can too. for avc grab a bit more of the country nearly every day. A couple of weeks back the Turks gave ns twenty-four hours to get'off the Peninsula, but of course that was ridiculous. We could never haA’o done it in the time. A lot of us had our washing out and it would have taken all twenty-four hours to have got it dry and -packed array. About four days ago we dented the old Turks fez pretty badly. We had about 100 opus on shore besides various warships slugging hell out of his trenches for about four hours before our infantry got loose. We grabbed a bit more real estate, but Brer Turk rvas there in hordes and our forces were not strong enough to go too far. The big obstacle in our way is a hill called Atchi Baba (Hill 210),' and it is like a blasted Gibraltar, but I guess that next time avc will just about blow it off the map. Last scrap, during a lull for repairs, 1 Avas able to get a look through a good" glass, and from what I suav lying about all over the scenery I reckon that the Moslem Becording Angel Avas Avorking oA r ertime. I also saAv some of them reinforcing the trenches. They would crawl a few yards and then stop again. A Tcav -stopped for quite a Avhile—in fact, I got tired of Availing for them to go on so T Avent aAvav. We are down at Sedd el Bahr as though avc hung around Gaba Tepe for a Aveek aaTicii the infantry landed we could not get our guns ashore.

Throe weeks or so hack two divisions ta limit 1000) of Turks attacked up there and were shown what a swell tool the machine gun is. In the morning there was eight acres of dead. The hag was ostium ted at 9000 killed and 10,000 winged. Our battery has keen

handled a hit. Our casualties are up

to the present .‘1 killed and fourteen ( wounded. Everyone has had narrow . shaves, hut one get’s used to that.