STEADFAST CONFIDENCE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 30, 11 January 1916, Page 7

STEADFAST CONFIDENCE.

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"away they have never, been able, up to this day, to break through. The' ground is simply honeycombed with trenches, saps, tunnels, and drives. In places where you proceed gingerly with the flickering light of a candle you might imagine yourself in the catacombs. There are gruesome reminders that add to the illusion. From Quinn’s we- proceed to Pops’s —now'■also greatly strengthened—looking a little anxiously at the opposite ridge over which we have to proceed, because, just at the moment, it is being shrapnelled by some wellplaced bursts from the Turkish guns. However, we dive down into r. dceo gully, 1 holding on by a rope, ami thence climb by Polly Bed Trad; on to Walker’s Ridge and Russell’s Top —points named after- two ol our Brigadiers.- The shrapnel, had failed to reach us, and we halted for lunch —with the flies—in an open trench.

TRENCH MORTARS. In an embrasure a few feet away some men were expermiraenting with a Japanese mortar —beautifully made and effective. It is worked very much in the same way as a howitzer, and fires a big bomb with a high explosive bursting charge. Von set your brass fuse on the nose of the shell for time or percussion, just as with an ordinary shell, and, having got the right direction and inclination, you pull a string and of? sh© goes. Wo watched the bomb climb into the air, a little stick being propelled out of the tail as it climbed upwards, arid, their With a graceful steep curve the. bomb begap to fall towards the Turkish * trend) 400 yards away. It struck .the parapet, a little short, and tlieire ‘whs a tremendous explosion as part of the breastwork went up in a cloud of smoke. It was not had fpr,. f a fil'd shot, and the men were evidently very pleased with their new toy. ,

A CATAPULT. At another place in the trenches there was a Garland bomb mortar, which our men say is not equal to the Japanese one, and, further on, one of the catapult kind. This is a primitive but fairly effective instrument ol warfare dating back to earlier times; but it has played an important part in the fighting on the Peninsula, it has a shank made of wood, and the impetus is given to the bomb by releasing the elastic strands of the sling after they have been tightened to the proper tension. Of oombs there are several kinds, including the ordinary Jam-tin one manufactured on the premises while you wait, and the cricket ball kind which i.s made of iron, and round, and is good and safe for turowing.

Along all this line now the lighting is mainly with bombs, with an occasional bit of shrapnel and high explosive thrown in, and the casualties are comparatively few. A “push” in such circumstances by either side must always mean a heavy casualty list. ,im u: /'•> eu j •\.,c r e J.'.SL 9 * >

MILES OF SAPiS aND TRENCHES

In the Anzac zone there are now miles and miles of saps and trenches and tunnels. Often the trenching and the tunnelling reveal ghastly and unpleasant reminders of the desperate fighting that enabled us to get and maintain our grip on this part of the Peninsula. Entering one tunnel we came upon the booted and trousered leg of a man.sticking out of the earth, and a little farther on the tunnel roof revealed the belt and and tunic of a dead Turk. He had been dead some months, and rather than disturb him further they decided to leave him there. Every hour of the day and night men were passing that way, but they took no more notice oi the bulging human thing than if it were a bofilder. in the clay. Between the trenches there were still bodies—now almost mummified—that had been lying out for many weeks, yet no one dare go out—for fear of adding to their number—to, bury them. Where the Australian Light Horse made their famous charge there were many such.

A STOHW. That night there was a storm from the south, and a paddle steamer and a destroyer were driven ashore, the one near Anzac the other at Suvla. The Turkish guns got oil to the steamer next morning, buij -made rather bad shooting, and for several days wasted quite a lot of ammunition on her. The sailors had quickly painted the wrecked destroyer khaki to harmonise with the new surroundings, but the enemy in time also noticed her and began shelling. The wather had cleared and the light was perfect ; but again some of the shooting was rather indifferent.