GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 6 September 1915, Page 7

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

FIGHTING ON GALLIPOLI. MR BARTLETT’S ACCOUNT. LOjNDON, Sept 3 (Reed 1.30 p.m.)

Mr Bartlett states that throughout the forenoon troops tested qui.-t.ly in their trenches, calm as usual, yet fully realising the.r respons-hilities, and that the task was regarded as the most difficult of any attack yet made, ■except the first landing. Battleships, supported by-cruisers and monitors, steamed close in in readiness *'cr the preliminary bombardment. A t three on the afternoon of the 21st the first gun was fired, and half an hour witnessed another of thos e terrible bombardments which have become common places on this bloody soil. The warships concentrated upon Kills 70 and 112, supported by field guns and heavy howitzers. Again the trenches appeared to be swallowed up in smoke, earth and clouds. The Turks did not show a sign; none left his position. Turkish guns replied furiously, chiefly upon and behind Chocolate (Hill, which was wreathed in bursting shrapnel. It soon set lire to bush and scrub, and a breeze fanned it into furiously spreading flames in amazing rapidity, frequently blotting out the position with cioud s of rolling smoke and flames. At 3.30 a regiment crept forward and endeavoured to form a firing' line at the foot of Hill 70. This wag the signal for a tremendous fusilade from the whole Turkish line.