WILES OF THE TURKS.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1915, Page 9 (Supplement)

WILES OF THE TURKS.

T'MOICS THAT 'WERE VAIN. BOGUS INDIANS SHOT. An Australian officer writes: " The enamy played every possible trick. He had machine-guns in tl>e bush and gunnere with hands and faces stained green, ] and with boughs and whole bushes tied about the Turkish soldiers. Dug-outs ! everywhere with snipers, Turks and Ger- ' mans, most of them with food for sev- ! cral days, and anything up to two thousand rounds, and deadly straight their shooting was. We killed one in an Aus- j tralian uniform with eight of our men's , identification badges round his neck. Some of them would fire till our man | were five yards off and then ask for quarter. That was too much. They j tried to play tho stretcher game on us. ' Our men wore preparing to meet a | counter-attack, when down came a lot j i>f fellows with stretchers, the loader , shouting: 'Make way for stretcher j party,' but fßere was something funny i albout his accent, and wc thought some of the bearers looked too dark, so we oho,t them down and found we had bagged a dozen o'i them with a machinegun and three boxes of ammunition." At another point in the Australasian ! lino appoared swarthy men, crying out: j "'Salaam, sahibs, wc Punjabis."* But Hie ] New Zealanders and. Australians read j their newspapers and knew the wiles of j the Bochc, and the poor'" Indians " mot I with a sad end, proving on examination ! |.n ibo Ormans svnd Turks with selfblackened faces.