AT THE DARDANELLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1915, Page 6

AT THE DARDANELLES.

j |' V I;.-—. I -i'.i ill! War I 'oi'ivpouik'iit' »itli tli.- :<•••» ' M.iy In this tt.T :".id- ■: li:,! chaii_;es ;:ir i oiitiuua'.y o-.err-n'.:. ami il i- i'.: I j •••' ■ ' I" '> ""• 11 ■' uri " Ml- a dav IMIIV loin ■' I'-nM. 1 vin pcohit' il, h'i'jh I-""- -■ ....liinwiilul :< ' I «»»'""'• iu 4;.,. .\>,\„ T-iri.-ali. I'll- linm. - diatch' Ix-unii t» think of our trade in- (.lit dUm- <' f tic Suez Canal, .h----"real i rni;'■■ - from '.'"'.audn and ' battleship- -I.i-;>' i:;i.U t' ll ' ' ami Nov mUw.I in t.ie »•«'• 1 • Saros. «li' I!.- »'affi|...!i IVimi-Ml.;. » ,Viv (lav.-. la'u "11 t!s»* world kn that tin- Tri«.!r >!t lit" JSajert'.e !•«•» h!V > their la-: J;, i-. i dea..ly s.,om.i:i,i,. ]i;ill «(>! thrill. 'I !>••>' Vat bottom "1 tin- M-u. 'I i>- m*.!. the sixth Ji> tl;:\'. I |iis.lei- In tlii-, Da.lam':. - b:-: • there «.•

r ■■■(,,(.:l t,, ■ . : übiuai'iiies - . 1 1: j • L Ti.-ir a;ipearainc wa - i.u* l!r/ !■>''-*>•• i ll! - 1 ' coimmitnm among-l t> giect an I vai.e , lU .„ t s „, 1; r . . v ,iato,m-. a., when , (it lilt 1 >'.iiM.Tl J';' I '' J'- ,l I;) duck '.alhcrirg i:-T l»oml about lu-r mi!- t , l ,..ilv"^«rn«- 5 . f-..r shelter. Only the simil.- is nut iii-.it>- arcurate, tor in tin- j case the iloilgiing- "i ll > l ' iU ' ( ' than th • parent skip-. !li-m- laitei ( mu-t si inrr «w-i>,v into tin- loomed , netted safety t .f certain harbors, wlu.b , shall tie inline;.-.s for the time being. ; while the ,1...,tr<-v-r- ke i" v;at-li ais-l | ward or search il'e -ens to: tin 1 ha-e in the lurking submarine-. .Meantime. I'm .. |,Vm of s'J, n'.ii- aii't munition* for tin- Medit "rranean K.\|:e<iitiomiry 1-onc must, be giving the authorities a lit tie iiuxior, thon>:!-.t. No <!o"bt il v ' ii! hr :l!l put ri-fht in. 'time. The UriCsli .'an be tiustek to ,-ie that its c.x|»'(lit:»;i 'lm-' not' starw. H n«l that its cannon do not remain w.'cnt. Sf»r-»vcr. is •' ziu-zao i(>■.::••>' a> >.-s which s!i : ,ps >.an (ia,li with i'e 1 t; rcmainii'.e s:M'.'ly ill liaiv)or dnr.r.},' tl:e dayliviit ■ -a rort of p(.i.n't to pfiint ra'>- in the darx. It will hv a littV in'in- i xi;tiii!i. 1.. >a.v the least, of it., t'.i'.ii va.s the launcliii-- forth of the ere-.it Ant.ft.la from i.cmiios: lint that vital rt< > f a'l vrarfar -. tin- line of coinmnnii atcan-. n:n-t he maintainc;! at- ail haza'V.s. d maintained il wiil he. Ilislc.v v.'ill I'.dl tvlietli.-r <1- not the Uaniareilc. <r should ever have tieen ct-n .HfiH-ct. and wli-tlf'r harin!< keen comm> n'.i it was cuminenc.d iu'tlu- rijihJ '.va;. : 1 '- f . tliis m-ilh.'r int'inc. nor t'i.e jdat ■ for -ucli a ili»cassion. 'l'l:' one taics frtain is that into ii we mn-t sec it. thioii-a to a. s!l. (a --fnl i.-.-ne. ivhatevcr tin- cost I may l)e. It is jn-t as well that the ovei-.-.ea•; dixiiinioi s ~o intimaf.i'iy ci-n- ---. ,'erne.t in it should, realise that, and , slionM re.ili-' at a o tl'Ht there is toneii work ahead. Vi't'halily l>y tnis time s thev aire.id ' realise it. 'I he lurks unJ iffr Cfrm.Mi .Li'.idam-e mil advice have made the e : eat stn.uphold of the Dardanelles doubly -trone-. and th • «lo\v- , iiy press tel. -rams we used to set a limit p the pruba'ole si-cce-s of' the Navy in ( forcing tin- ])assa«e have not heen homo 8 out l.v the facts. Tim Xavy could no; sin:ce:,:'fully .have forced the passage

without UT: tOIT-e. )'.\ Ml •with that aileijuato landing furfc. tli>DanlitnoH. s

crack. I.i tus hope 11) at by the time these lilies £;>]>«»' in print the Tur.oresistance will have been broken ami that t!:c jriw< "i the Allied forces will ibe timni .Ting at the putt's oi Stamhonl. AT ALKXAXJJRIA.

Tlic other day T ran down to -Ales.'' —as people here are wont to call tin* L'roat jiort at the mouth oi the Xih — to interview -onu- of oil'- wounded. and to see for myself what was doing there. . The wlioh |,iace wa, a scene of tremendous maritime and military activity. t The big dining-room of tile Savoy—and no doul't G'f other hotels, too —was filled ivitli khaki. There seemed to l):"- ollicera coming rind going from many parts b of the lvimire. Tlice were ollicers from ([ England and India, from Australia and *Xew ZeaUmd. The son of the Prime Minister of Kngland—wounded in the Dardanelles —-"nobbled in on crutches. A Xe\v Zealand lad, who had fought with j, Villa in Mexico, and had been wounded t at Antwerp, came in from the Dardanelles with another hole drilled in his arm. . lie is turn' :i major.' Oil shore along s the beach in sandy spaces between the J big stone h ml hotels, charmingly 1 placed to ;utch the sea breeze, w-ie J camps of men and a multitude of horses anil mules. Great ships Hying the llags ■ j of three or four nations lined the long [ quays, and the ]io't was a hive of human industry. Enormous stacks of food ifor horse anil man. and engines of construction and de-traction, met the eye j on cvorv hand. Streams of men—lvng- | lish, French. Italian, Greek, Egyptian l and others—tended the clanes or toiled j up and down the gangways loading and , unloading, for all the world like streams of ants—Mack and white. Order was j 'being evolved out of seeming cliaos. Great motor lorries, driven by English , and colonial soldiers in khaki, rumbled ■past. ,Motor-c;<rs, with other khaki drivers, hurrying oflieer s hither and thither, dashed up to the gates and sped along the (piays. And, in the midst of it all, a stately liner with the now familiai- green stripe and red crosses along her side, was harboring near a line of motor-aml'mlanees, patiently waiting to convey her five hundred wounded to r thc big hospitals in which doctors and nurse> wcr 1 toiling day and night. This told von—if nothing else did —that it was war, and war not so very far away. The banners of Italia, hung out a few days a"(> in jubilation at the declaration of'war against Austria, were still banging in the hot sunshine—a note of brilliant color—and hundreds of our new Allies were hoarding a sdiip amid great enthusiasm to join their regiments on the frontier. Tlie 4tli New Zealand Reinforcements were arriving, eager to ;<et into tlie fvay. They would not have long to wait. And through it all tlie darker life of the teeming town went its thousand ways—the veiled women and the turhanned men—thinking its own thoughts ani seemingly not caring which way the tide of war might turn. JJut if von were walking with a wounded man and turned suddenly you might pereliaiue surprise on some Egyptian face a smile of satisfaction that was almost a sneer. The ordinary Arah, apparently, still sympathises more with the Crescent than with the Cross. lie- ! cause of bis religion and his ignorance, it is perhaps natural that he should do 1 ?0 ' FURTHER FIGHTIXG. ! You 'Will alrcadv have heard By cable of the severe fighting in which our men took part from 'May 17 to 20. Tliey again distinguished themselves. This , time it was the Turks that attacked. At a very moderate cost to our aide tliey were repelled with great slaughter. The dead became so numerous that a Turkish officer, resplendent iii a uniform with r.w.'p'TH. came, under cover of a

REINFORCEMENTS BEING SENT.

SUBMARINES CHANGE THE ASPECT

BUSY SCENES AT ALEXANDRIA

order that tia-y miuht, bury tlieir dead in front of the Australian and New Zeiland trenches, This was gladly granted, (he is.ore SO as the weather in the Dari.anell's is now getting rather warm, l-'or hours the Turks worked (juietlv and quickly at this ghastly business, protectill-- their Ja.es the while with cottnn \V( ,d soaked, with some disinfectant to iVadcn Ilie. siren 'h. The main atta.-k i-.'a- on the night of (he IStii-1 hth, and : liogether Villi:; Turks tell lie!ore the ■! (= i (JI v lire poured into tliem be t' : 111 ■ .'i rnl ia us and New /ealaudeis. tie i .n. .. dui'iue the a. 1 m.'sta-e, hiDxed !'"■ t'.V(C'a Iwo ami three thoa-aml dead. -.ib-(••'{u.ently Urn New Zealand In

f-ntry were -cnl, down to leinlon e tin' I'ritif-li. who were having a hard time at Ca.pe llcllcs. There, und 'r their old !'l'ie;|.d:ei'. Coil aid I'.. .lahll-nll. who 1.: i-1 been I eii.porarilv laid aside by lllm -s. rIII",- did splendid work, though one kei,-; that t!u ir ior-cs w -re coiisidcraldi'.

A DIAIiV. J-'r.uu t!e ii:a-y of Caplain Faiiv't!-.] | N.Z.A.M ■■'.). who \va-< jiMt returned <;> i I , mi.vion front the front. 1 am per!ii:t- , t-.l t«> make a few interesting <*>:ti ■'.Way 12- Arrived at (.'ape llelie.-. -ombarilmont in full swin^. -M s v i:i -Ariiv -.1 at Cnbrt 'lVpe. hut 11 \-\Va cleared out. in a. hurry tor - . •robal>ly o\vin;> to the jire.-ence of sub* nariiies. to Kaleka, lyin^ a harbor, behind a. boom ot torlu nets, ami coveietl by siioi'e batil 'lv wcic store-ships ami oiljimUm in iarjje nuniners, al-o KU and !a- liit liier sll : p. "May I"i—Still in iiaibor. Tnrk--Ii iirisonrrs IsehiiT i'-ed to hind I'ri nc'i '■May It! -l.ei't for (iaba 'l\ : pi* at davi»ht. ' At 11 a.m.. ,jis we appi-narhiNl, ■even slrdls from the i-oelh-n. out oi behind i)tt' lulls of 11: i' IViiiiiMilii, ■ idaMied into the water on our side, but i;d no Tile (.bieen Kli/:ibet!i joinbanU'U two villages ami set th.'m on ire. "May 17—-Loft for • wliw. ' boom, more shijipiiiL;'. (lot on M.'iii<l iL trawler 'liouiHi fur <• al.a Ti pe. vhe'.e "i landed mii!i l ;■ s 1-.rapm-l at i.:!'l. Sli dis were bursting oil tlu- beach mniediately in front of tlio l'Yhi Ambii-an-e die: -mil; station. Wit.ii siiniMirt .on j.i-t a id second-*' warning to <lu k nto your dug-out. There was rillc and irtfUorv l':>c all night. a; the Turk*-witp mtkiup .in itlla.'A in fnr;«\ Tit y failed ..idly, WW Mil? killod and 2IMH) wound■l. Our -lasiiaitios tliat and the ;ext day (Australian and Now Zea.and) were between :iO(( ami -HW. Tlio Australians sulVcred more tlian did the Vew /ea la nders, as the y were 011 till' 'ight Hank, where the linn;.' was hottest. ".May IS - The enemy shells w'!'c fa 11ng just past tlie beach into tlio soa. N veil, fijjflit or niiie-inih shells fell in > i„'.v in the sen. One 'ell within 2» '•et of a liaise carrying wounded. It took a 'bluejacket. wlio happened to bo tauding ii]i, with it. "May 111—Fairly quiet. A Taubc, llyin:; ifairly low, dropped a bomb, whieh fell close to some barges. . "May i!i)—Again fairly quiet. The •nemy put two out of ton shots on tn 1 ba'-ge load 'd 'with tins of biscuits. "May 21—Fairly quiet, though t'hi Turk's keep up their firing. Rullots llew . /or our position and landed some, (lis tance out 'in the water. A stray bul H killed Major llaillic, who was landing ivith some troops in a barge. Ho. lute lain down and had gone to sleep in tlit barge. It was noticed that he had slip ■ed' down a little lift, but it was 1101 loticed that lie had been hit until tin men were out of t'l 1"■ barge. Then it was 'mind that he was dead. He had get 1 bullet through tile 'brain. "M.iv 11—Heavy rain, and the mini simply awful. At 0 p.lll. a shrapne dieli burst just behind the dressing' stu ,ion. It put 08 holes through the water .roof sh?et in flout of a dug-out. Tlx x-cunant was killed instantly. The bul cts rattled overhead and swept tin teach just as we wci e getting up fron linner. Fortunately we had remainec talking for a whil.- in the dug-out." Subsequently, Captain Faiivhild re ■eived orders to proceed to Cairo tc rocurc two dental mechanics, lie wait ■d 011 the beach till IS -.1.111. to get 01 joard a retuvmng ship, and noted signal: 1-0,11 a ship clos -' inshore. Wlien day iglit dawned lie found it was the battle i'hip Al'jion ashore, hi IS9S lie had .seei -.his sivnie ship launched in thi 1 'I 'names shell she drowned ..l'i women ant child en. It was another eoincid'nce thai l few (lacs before he met in one of thesi viro.s harbors, in charge of an oil taut teanier, the man who had given him tin ieket for the launching. Tht> Albior vas now surrounded by trawlers and de trovers. She had lightered some ol ler heavy ammunition and was firing iroadside after broadside to make lie. olt, the while the Cniiopiis, attached t( er with a tow-line, -went full spcet head. The Turkish field guns, liotinf lie situation, began to rain shells ai ier, and at about S a.m.'two lar;o spurt! if (lame appeared on the bridge for-ard 'hese fires, however, were soon put out nd at 8..10, to the cheers of the sailors he Albion was towed off. She had pro inblv grounded in the. night when en eavoring to evade the submarines, lie ause after the first alarm the ship' ,«pt all the, time on the move.

EECrsT DEVELOPMENTS. Though the Turco-Oarmiins are putting up a most determined fight, there are indications that their resources are beginning to lie influence* 'by the great strain that has .been put upon them. The. Turk, however, must now realise that this is no -war with indifferent armies or impotent principalities. lie knows that he is at last really fighting for his position and property and prestige—such as it is—in Knrope. He will 110 doubt continue to fight desperately, especially to prevent the Allied forces from reaching Constantinople -by way of tlie Dardanelles, for that assuredly would mean the fall of his kingdom. He ha? been made tlie dupe of German gold and of German diplomacy, and lie now realises this. But the realisation lias come too late, so the Turk must fight on so j long as there is a glimmering hope of victory; so long, indeed, as there is a chance of staving oil' complete defeat. His casualties in the Dardanelles alone have enormous; but ours also lmve been very lieavv, and the toll of 'Our ships that, the Turk has taken would be a staggering blow to almost, any other marvtiiee Power. Tlie fii'liting has oertaintv 'ecii in our favor, but it lias been anyt.liMis; ton*. one-sided. Tt was a quest'on at whether the, landing on tlie -rjallipoli .Peninsula- would succeed. nwl at one stage, tlie position was ewe-- r ""V --ritical. It ivns the hcro,ism displayed by tho Australians and Xi'.v Ze»''indi'>'s the fine Witin? qiin'itie i of the Wrflsh 2fltli Division, the e)Ti..t.ive:'e=s of tlie French artillery, and the sMi'linrt of tlie Alii-e l fW fhn* enabled n-i ho'd r-n to tlie fiallfroli Peninsula. Tlie ebonies are that vr- slml] no r.-i'-- continue to hold on. but that with '-..ivfoveements we shall lie able to

enemy. (icnenil von Sanders is said to 'iu.'Ve threatened to d'h'e the colonial forces into the sea. lie may find his | clou command perilously near desti'iK- | tion hefov.' many weeks are over. J lie J I acme is. however, foives down | to this.the most, impi riant scene of oper- I ation for tin' Turk, but some ot his re- | s4krvc.-', art' arrivinjr in an exhnsicd con- j dition, and timre are indications that i till- aminunitinn now licillß used is o;va- j -ionally defective. There are some clijJ* -, I of cari.-idnes that the army coati aider ha", tilled with sawdust, and taere ai" I some shra.Miel >'.sc)ls that do not con- | tain hullets! In iralestiuc tin- 1 nrk iiil even wor-e case. Kjeniat I'a-hii ham>t, tired of the fiarnians. and there arc few of them left iu -Icmsalem. I'e is however, desirous of cxterminatine the dewi.-h e(doiiies. (liera i.-. ■he thinks {lie Turks will he faced with a. problem : which led to the .Macedonian wars. Prac- ; i'nallv all tin- (lermans who were at have ' t" Ueer-iii-'ia. a . i j is t'ce base for tile Sue/. l : an.il attack, j What with sea-'city of mouev. famine . and the locii-l, pla-tue, Palestine is in a . vcrv bad way. and it- would not- surpn-e ,Ml(. to se • the Turks before lon.u. mi . sheer dc.-;ieiatiosi. makin.i;' another atI ack upon Hie Suez t'anal. l.il'K IN ANZAC C!l\"K. The little indention just to tile mirth of Italia. Tej e. whci'e ih • liriti-ii I'lel t'olonial Ire. Ps (aimed, ha- keen named Anzac Cove, and you may note that the name ha- -i-en co-nposc-d ol the initial i,,]t of tile Aa-i aiian and Ne-v

land Army Corps. It. v.'ill j>". '.ubiv 1 e 1 lit on the m.---.- nii-.'.s. and mark niiothev inih-lcre i,n tin- fcrwanl mav.-li of Kmjire. kife at, .Anzu,' Cove is worth *

jii'ii f ile-i'vipiion. It is M>y exciting: ] b'lt it ;a Very simple. Tln-re is a beach that, i- from thirty to lift, /eet wide. Above that the hills rise abrrpliv. On this beach, at the loot oi tile clill. the rich! Ambulance has its home, and mo-i <d t.h 1 m,en have dug into the side ot ; the hill. At night time thev rrawl in' . j these bun'i'.ws. Thee is not room | enough to stand up in them. The h.os- ] pital. which is really- a clearing station, j is right, on the beach, and is protec|e:i | bv siiiulbags ovi'i'lciid and at the sldi--, ] but the operating tent is a lent pure and j snrde. The men have also their little | dug outs in life fata' of the clltV. It is like *..!!!<• lmg-' rabbit warren. Tm-e a'c useil when they come down ti.mi lac tre>!-.-hc< .for a well. The i.rCous ai - bully beef and bi.-:'uits. witn an occa- , sioual bit of 'Miifoii and t'a ami suga.. ! Sivrar was not too plentiful. | llead()t!arlcrs, which was n< lirsi on I the beach, is new up a fair'.c deep, day j eu 11about half a mile di-e:.ie. there , Cene'-al .Clodley and his stall' ar-- als i leading the simple but oxc-iling li/'. in . (lug-onts. Tbi-i gully td into the Peninsula. ( and t'lcri bends round t> tue left, forming il kind of elbow, which gives fnnie -aJetv from the 'l'urK's i tii'e !u-it i ( lew til.' illinp are let'iM-Hl t!■ mul'!'. -.-. hi. ii are invaluable. I hey arc wi'iked and looked after by I.mjians I-- :• ca -e. I nil' 1 'I. it has a.b to be brought in barges to the s'c.ir". Alost of it has to be condensed. '! is puir..r-d fr ( . in the bar-es into water-carts an t wortli its weigilt in silver. Vou v.a-h , I your face in what yv.t have used for slia.vlng. A bath is out oi the -jwslioii. ' but ycunuiy get enough wate inio your s|.(.iige to once over your body.