AUSTRALASIANS MAKING HISTORY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 280, 31 August 1915, Page 2

AUSTRALASIANS MAKING HISTORY.

MEMORABLE NIGHT MARCH AND ATTACK. MEN WHO KNOW NO FEAR. APPALLUNG TURKISH LOSSES i Reuter's' Dardanelles correspondent say the night inarcn of trie AUiiallans arid i_\ew to San Bair will live in ths.history or toe campaign. Th e ground gained in tix-3 attack on Loesome Pine p.ateau on the right fivnt v,-as, trilling. The object was to prevent the Turks from Le-Lnforcing elseviiere. Tii e attack involved seme of the L'3verest fighting- in the campaign. The Australian storming party charged ever sixty yards of open ground. None wavcVed, none tried to get hack. .Deeds of bravery were so numerous that it is impossible to recount them., They climbed into the trenches and searched fcr spots whtlre they could pull up t'ae heavy squared logs forming the roof. Holes were made in the face of terrific machinegun fire, and the Australians jumped down ten feet into the trenches wheire the Turk s were awaiting them with bayonets, bombs and rifles. The Turks f„UjAu desperately amid piles of dead. One. hundred and twenty were captured and CG'J were buried.

Lcue.ome Pin e was the merest incident in the main opXanions wherein th e Australians and New Zealaders gained elbow-room. Many thousands Were taKen from the crowded Anzac ir^nch;2 s and dug-outs and Sent to the iiii'ls. lonrung the northern boundary of the nevvly occupied position. 'il.i-3■ jlu-ivS on live udi Sv/il.med down i'roni the ridges in an effort to iweejp oh the Australians, fvew ZviiUaiiaersa and British from t..e liill-s.de. They wt,. o k..r.\c"a \,i.ii lo^o- .. j r„t-.ui a a^tni c ivhodL.a-uO.oii v ..- ill » »\-4. 0 - ililuiCi iilo' AulilS iU&'t. ju»\i, _ooj wore kiueu __„ „ i j^»c ; ulc: lay ,„ iu ~.„ v. iV i .......- i«j uu.ry u»-iL, £>v> ilirew' iho - er~Ss.£>, iUIU tll-jy l'Oil0 v-ii-K.ng mc gU-'i- ., w b, .o ine uur.u„ ui s-iid ut iiij dotcom >ji cue ing signt viewed even ironi u nine uvi;tant. The Turkish 8-inch gun is still siiieUthe beaches at Anzac, but the work proceeds smoothly. There was a stuffing bayonet attack on th e l 9tn on the left of the Suvla position. An Irish division which captured Chocolate Hill crept round the base cf the. .Turkish position under luav'y lire and reached a ridge facing the Turkish ) idge. The battalion, cheering, charged with, the bayonet, The Turks came out, and there was a despera.e conflict between the ridges, Th„ Irish bayonets stabbed and flashed for several minutes, and then the Turks fled over the clrest, The Irish stood at the top and fired down the hillside at the fleeing enemy GERMAN OPINION OF AUSTRALASIANS Prisoners declare that German officers told the Turks jeTore April lhat the Australians and N3A' Zealanderr. were probably eomng. They warned them they wer e not ordliavy men, but very devils for fighting, Th.j lanPng in April confirmed the warning, There is lasting regret that there were insufficient troops to follow ui the initial success at Gaba Type