The Dardanelles.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 23, 25 September 1915, Page 5

The Dardanelles.

CAPTAIN WALLINGFORD. CHAMPION SHOT’S RETIREMENT. REMARKABLE REVOLVER WORK “SICK OF KILLING THEM WITH * A RIFLE.” United Press Association. (Received 8.20 a-m.) London, September 24. Captain Wallingford is retiring from the New Zealand force owing to a strained heart. Writing to bis parents, be says; t “I tried to stick to it, but for fourteen days after we bad beaten off the Turks T was crawling round with my ginis with a stick. T got borne with a revolver after killing four—one at a distance of a foot, another at five feet, the third at ten feet, and the last at 20 yards. Poor Devils! They were all youngsters. I am sick of killing them with a rifle.”

an opVimistic report.

Athens, September 24

The Allied batteries made a violent bombardment upon the Anafarta positions, and as a result the heights may be occupied without the necessity for a general assault. > CENSORSHIP AT FAULT. » London, September 23. In the House of Commons Sir A, B. Markham, complaining of the censorship, stated that when there was had news from the Dardanelles the people had to get it from friends and relatives. The House had been kept in complete ignorance of the seriousness of the situation at Gallipoli. THE LANDINGS ON GALLIPOLI. GENERAL HAMILTON’S FIRST DESPATCH. , , i , , ( ; ! I i‘, .It We have received from Messrs Gordon and Gotch a copy of .an illustrated booklet containing Sir lan Hamilton’s first despatch .embodying the. story,-..ofj the historic landing' on Gallipoli. The ;“Lond*on .Spectator,’’ Referring to the. despatch, !-7® < '‘Etejy mttn, ’tvoriiqiii and child ought to read, thej .story ,q| these, landings and rqrpomber. always as lie reads—the, Naval- ( Divisipn, the Territorials, anil the 'Australians and New j29t|, Divislon; which has made, an, imperishable mpm (for itself, had . not had much training for war Sir lan Hamilton, says of the landings; ‘No finer feat of arms has ever been achieved by the' British soldier or any other soldier.’ ” The profits from the sale of the booklet c|qvq|ed to the,,New Zealand Fund in aid of the soldiers who have been wounded, the women who have been, made widows and . the children who have been made orphans in the achievement of the glorious deeds recorded in this and future despatched The booklet which is now obtainable from all news agents, contains, ; besides an excellent map, pictures of places mentioned jn the General V ! Despatch. It is : , the intention of the i proprietors to publish in'similar form Sir lari Hamilton’s latqr despatches, and the series, when completed will he a full official history of the Gallipoli campaign.