The Fight On Gallipoli Paninsula.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1915, Page 7

The Fight On Gallipoli Paninsula.

.\i:\v /.. \..a\u \\urxi)(.;i) Till-: SIXKIXC (I].' TI j !■: TimWll'll. (l-'inni Malcolm lids-, (lllirial \\';u' l 'iirrcs[i(iii(li'iil, N I"xi" <1 it imiary l-'oi'i'c.) 7 Ihe intensity oi this war will liave lii'i n liruuiilit Intuit l In I lie pi opK' ul Xi'\v Zealand Willi startliiiL.'' Middciim'ss and with ii shock that even tile most imaginative eotild -ran-ely have been pre:iar'•'l for. The urini realities of tin- battlefield itself an- mereifuliy withheld from our nwii land, vol in a few weeks' time the Dominion will be hearing of them at lirsMumd. The Willoelna, now lyinji" |m ai t'fulfy in a Suez doek, is in-mjr turned into a hospital ship, and ill a lew days will s;iil lur New Zealand with three hundred siek and woundi'd on board. As has been the Vase at the Xew Zealand Ilosjiital at Abassia. everything possible will be done for their eare and eomfort, and sad as it will i>.' for most ni* them to leave their eoin-lad'-s and to think that their days are over, it will be a tremendous reliel to litem lo out, of the sweilerinir heat o! Cairo and to tiirn their faerM toward friends and temperate elime. Major Holmes, X.Z,A.M.( has been specially detailtd to see to the fitting cut and despatch of the shin.

Meantime, the more than decimate.! force that remains is dinning with all the old heroism to its litih- bit of ihe (■allipoli Peninsula, and tln re it will can* tiuue to hold and to in unless tlie odd-i should be of an nature, indeed, not only has it . held its own ground in the face of superior numbers, but it lias sent a force south tc. help flie allies while its own attenuated litn-s have held against tlie enemy in superior foree cm the lieijulits of <!;ibn 'l'i jie. In this Boutliern expedition, tlie losses or tlie N'ew Zealanders, as has already been indieated, were heavy; but once more they fought with mauniiieent dash and The Allied forces drove the enemy info the village of Krithia. hut failed to lake the fort beyond thai was their main objective. In this Ideality it now becomes a ijuestion of trench warfare with sapping 1 and mining and artillery duels. A I'I.KVXA -MAN <i\ CALI-H'OLf.

| Colonel Kyan, of tin; Australian | A.M.C., was through the siege of l'levua J with the Turks, and his book about that j campaign is well known. Xow lie finds himself in the (.iallipoli .Peninsula in the ; opposing lines. I happened to have a j letter of introduction to him, and til,' 1 other day in Shepheard's, seeing a sbor;. stontish, grey-bearded man with Australian badges and a lied Cross on his arm, I asked if by any chance he happened to know Colonel Ryan. "I am Colonel Ryan,'' he replied, with a merry twinkle in his Irish eyes. Ife had just come back from his "dug-out" at tlab.i Tepe. When (lie armistice was granted to Iniry the Turkish dead facing our lines, he walked out into the Turkish trenches, and when the the Turkish doctors noticed his Plevna ribbon they greeted liiin warmly, but wanted to know what he was doing in the opposing lines. He told tlieni. They were iim; fellows, these young Turkish doctors, he said. One spoke English perfectly. Dr. Ryan told him lie looked like an Englishman. "Xo," he replied, "1 am a pure Turk; but T was educated in Paris." Colonel Ryan got on very wcil with these young Turks, tut he had a row with two German doctors, win wanted to make out that the Ails tralians and New Zealanders in burying the dead in advance of their own lines were really making fresh trenches. The Turkish St;IV Officer who emne with t'u l (la;; of truce was, he added, a charming man.

TIIE TRTUMPTT STXKS. Colonel Ryan was in a hospital ship quite close to the Triumph when r;m was torpedoed by a German submarine. He heard a dull noise and thought it I was a distant gun; but immediately afterwards he saw a column of smoke 1 and water in the air—not. very high. ! The warship heeled over on her side a ! little and remained in that position for a few minutes. They she slowly turned over untiS they could see the red paint 011 lier bottom, after which she sank. At Lemnos, on his way back, he saw two Russian incinV-war steaming for it!] t!iey were worth aivd firing, so lie judged that there were other submarines about. Colonel Ryan, notwithstanding his year', is fit and energetic. He is {>ll' back to his dug-out. As I said ;.;ood-bye to iiim he remarked that he had a presentiment that lie would never come back troi>i t're l.i 'iuh at (iaba Tepe. (iN* A HOSPITAL TRAIN. SIUI'J'LM; TDK \YOUXI>ED lIoMK. WILL' K 'll HA AS A HOSPITAL SHIP. J line S. A long ln.s]i;tal train \>a< drawn njt .i( tin. J'sjltiin-do-Kublia >1 itio'i. iv a' I v t'. !<' ■ lor Suez at H.:!0 a.m. 'I lie New /•i.i:i'iii wounded were alivtd/ in il. lying in the cots of its white-painted ca:r;»{;!•!>. with ihe red mwßt and r-tar on each. I'T the ero>- does not hold here in .Kgypl- 1 olonel llall. the l'»a-e I omiiian(hint, tile Transport ' Ul'iri r la forcieu reprcsei!tati\c of Nobel's, who had enlisted in West Australia I, and the meoi-r-al uilicer in charge (a dark, tlat-un.-cd little man. whom 1 took for:; .lapane-'i were chatting together on 1 he platform, all arrangements lompU ted. l'lirlh t down the platform were a group o! tight. An-trnlia'i nursiv.im were In make the lung voyage bark i.. Xew Zr-.-land with our wreckage I'roin the b it t letield - of Oallip'di. The New Zealand nur-c- already in Cairo lia.l In en lent to the Au-t ralinn-. anil it was nor lhoiight fair to -.-ml bark some other Xe\, .1 la 11,1 who hail just arrived. Another batch of lit ! v was Ju<- i to arrive in a couple o,' day-. ■ A- We sieaun .1 out of the -tation I wonn'oi d' a no' in\ a lid'd oliir, r.-. not i ! hilling ail hi; their wound- : -orry only j that they had to "get out , ; i ; "_-o -oou. | It \\ a ■» a . hot journey ol six hon.'s j l(1 '-nr/ a I tiM 1 hj: o:! < M l i II t eIT-t i llji | ~mutrv. where ;h. imhi-t rioit< b'iUlie<-;! j v.ti'ttuu hi.- I un!> and \ l*r* hi-j ml-! I with'tln p i'i mil i \ e i m r i-■ u .cji t s Ihiii | v. CI 1 " !t-i ll ill tit' 1 1 Mill' "I Mo.-eS. ! 'l;' j.i-i'M- 111;11ii■ lis lei. later. we din -«i | ~n : t'-.'V. I, t-iv.ul. lemon.-.7 j 'i j;,- !ii i j; doe: or 1 iwy \.iih i>i.- |>a|" 'y | turned out In In- :i -c. His a!- j readv broad no-'' had at one time been. I til -, In■ i' ila!ll'm d by ;7\ ord nr a fl'i.; j fill. Ue >pokc I\U::JMi iplile v, e:i. ;,iiiS lii-i-ii iii I'n' Indian Army Medi'.-a! ,■->1 ivirr I'm' many years. Tin 1 attendant- on the train were (ur-ban-d Indian*. It wa- altogether n strange mixture W\v Zealand wound.••!. An>i);ijia n nurses. a S;an;e-e doctor. I'; tSiaii -ervants. and. a Scotch transport (.Hirer <uch a> «mc may see almost any t'.ay (In 1 war. At llir iVw \\aysi<lc slalioiis wlns-o we ruvions lilllr crowds of Kii.v})'ians Arabs and ;nid "a/cd at us. Presently the lino leii the cultivated Villiai'tl-talilo lields tliat Hie| id'cd on (dthci' n*> far a> tiic oy&

eou!d reach, iiiul wo touched the deteri I■" ■! 3:t: . Il V,:- CUI'IOUS I'■> M'C the >,Y'.V Zealand wounded from the carlia.'ic of thi ('resent train at tin 1 of Arahi's trendies ;»n.l llif Iii 1 'i' t'!*111(*11 rv. with its trees an.! th.wer,-, i Ji.it In.hK dead Jiviti.-ii soldier of a j.i ,; ; inns Isiaaili.i. against Hi-,' blue of lake r l imash, sped , p.>t. and ;lu-ii lit*- Bitter Lakes, ami ili.(I'--' vl av.:i \ < n 11 s■ ri;.;lil, wir-r* I : .r I"- 'J J ••:!!! t elan (i (heir I locks as (iid I ;i< Mmia< ;i>s of old. 'l'm 1 tln i ammeter climbed higher and r, and tin- dust sil'f i d in I hroi!'.:'. tin- HnalleM. crannies, but then wt • lie. er a word mi' c<,n»plaint from (lie Xew /'.natal wounded. Tlicy were well tend <d. bu! they were not m> dircrv now. tor they could not help thinking Ihi*. lli'-v were back on the tr-'k j lit I. tiiry Were home! Ti-.' weary months of training; tin* desert "riial'f'ii's; tin l I'ryamids; the Sphinx ali t lit• st* wm'e, merely memories, also. (he assemblage of (in; jj.reat a"mad i at. Lemnos; the landing on dailip'.di; (Ue storming of llif heights; and ii hundred other things. Tl.ey were saying to Kjrypt, with all Sis strange attractiveness, and setting th'ir fa-v- once more towards the ]:< n<l of their birth, where fairer and more whosesome scenes and the warm welcome of friends and relations awaited ih('<!». Tlm'V had been "outed," and the graves of tru-dy conivades ware aha-adv ;»row;;rccn on the heights of (iaba Tepo. Small wonder that they were silent and n little sad. l-aieii man had a liUle time, as the train rumbled over the de>ei't to do a little (juiet thinking. And yet there was not one of them b'.i: ie<jnttcd he was leaving his comrades-in-arms; not one but was loiitfiujj for "another Some ovon cherished a. hope they they would once more regain the flrin-;- line from far away New Z«n land. Lor most it. was but a vain hope. Oi.r train ran past the glorious bl.i ef the Hitter Lakes, and on our ri?;ht in the desert were the wonderful shimmering seas and faint islands and hei Ilands of the mirage. In the lieat of early afternoon We pulled up in Sue/, docks. And as we were steaming in with our tired and weary wounded, another train, with yO'Unjj 1 men in all their pride was steaniinir slowly out. And as tliev saw (•nr men throiifih the windows cif the hospital train they cheered mid cheered ajjain. It was a o'reetinjx to the Imttlestaincd New Zealanders returning from the front' from the newly-landed An-;' traliiinx, eaper to get tliere. Tin. li s j lfc iii:d shade of war had come towi'tlior with a Middenness and an that were startin«ly dramatic. As oilmen wav<d back a jjrcetiiif; and llie cheers of tlie Australians grew fainter np the line, one felt in the same moment a thrill of sorrow arid a of pride. At the station to meet ns was .Ma.ior Holmes (now A D.H.S.), who hail been sent down specially to see to the medical equipment of the ship, and Captain -Mitchell (of Xascby), the senior medical I otlicer in charge. ' Captain 'Withers, of the N.Z.A.M.C., was making the voyage with Captain .Mitchell, while foioii. 1 Will, invalided from the Zcitomi ha--"., was also returning to Mew Zealand. -Major M'Kenzie was O.C. ship. . So, next day, the Willoehra—troop- , ship Xo. 21, transformed into a hospi- j tal ship—steamed out into the gleaming ( waters of the (iulf of Suez, and tfiok 1 her way towards the Southern Cross | ( with the first of tiie wounded New Zea- . landers. | |

THE FICHTIXG OX GALI.IPOLI. •lUAVK DKK'DS OX THE •'• DAISY PATCH.'' A FRENCH STKATFGEM. THE "SEVEXTY-FIYES" AXD THE BAYONET. Off an Island in the Mediterranean, .June 14. Suicide Gully, Death Gully, Shrapnel Gully, are name 9 of spots near Anz.ic Beach that are as expressive as tliev arc ominous. Tliey are names that will nev.'r be forgotten by those Xew Zealandevs who went through the first few days of battle on the Gallipoli Peninsula, and who have, the good luck to return to their native land. Away down at Cine Helles, on the end of the Peninsula, there is a spot called the "Daisy Patch," a name that one could scarcely associate with war. There amongst the green grass grew a profusion of wild flowers and beautiful daisies. Tliey tire growing there still, hut amongst the daisies are patches of brown earth and small wooden crosses that mark the last resting-place of several brave New Zealanders, who have given their all for the Empire. When our men went down ' there to help the Allies in the attack on Aehi-Baba, they landed safely and were marched about a mile up the road before they encountered the enemy's fire - shrapnel and common shell—which, however, fell wide. They marched a further mile to a beautiful green paddock, where they commenced to dig themselves in. They stayed there all night, and next day' (M:i.V Oth) they watched the French advance. On the Tth, in the afternoon, they marched out in platoons, but had not covered more than a mile before shrapnel began to burst over them. It was almost dusk, aiul they re tired on to the edge of a cliff, where they were able to take cover. One of the Otago men was kill:;d and one or twi wounded. Tbere, also, Colonel Peerless, X.XM.C. (of Nelson), with the Canterbury Battalion, fell, shot through the left thigh. Notwithstanding his (12 years he was always with his regiment. He has been for several weeks in one of Hie military hospitals at Alexandria, is now convalescent, and on a troopship returning to I lallipoli.

On Die 7th Mac this forc«'. wliich u:;the remnant of the New Zealand Infantry Brigade- and 1 his would now aiiionnt to aliout a battalion in numbers —went » mile rurthev inland, till they came 1n a rarmlnmse, and there limy dug in ajrsiin. No siMincr had they do n' this, however, than they were ordered to fall in lor a ni.uht march to the trenches before Aehi-Ualm. Then* was to lie no Ii::In ill lt of pipes, and orders ji'iven in whispers. On the way they passed, occasionally, wounded men com injj; down from the front. One soldi t. -eixed with }tani.', imagined that the Oermans had ,iiot him. and as he starlc.l to announce his belief in loud shriek-, he had to be sent back to the dre.Vn:,' station. further on ihe Ne>v fjiiickly into fhein. Star shells were sent up by the enemy, and lit up tVsiirro'indihjr couuiry. bui the mi •.,;b nol -ludled, j'.nd the New /ealainh'i biC'/nai'ked for the and slept iii the Next niornin- at 10.71. thev ; 1 (; i Ihe order (o advaMee in eo IllC Ml of platoons, the men drplo\Oimnsiial way. Thee wen! at lirsl «i\.m* broken count n. hill after a time cam" to a level plateau covered with wii I Tills was -The Daisy I'aleii." Tiiere \he im n be- in to ia 11. 11 v.evident Oial the Turks had Ihe ran.oof it.

SAVING TilK WufXiiKD. Captain Ik Crai;.;'. N./.M ( who was with the Aucklanders. to all accounts, did «;oo<l \.ork here in .-.nccotirthe wounded. Wtth hi- orderly • one Stacey. li^bt- boxer he dod:_ r ed. from cover to cover attending to wounded from 1 he dili'erent regimen. >. including Mune of the Muitslers. w i « were in the vicinity. tlie deid was the body of Lieutenant Steadman. of the 'l'hird Auckland. lie (VII. slioi. through tho heart, while leading his men. Imlml, ho was ono of Iho first to fall. )n the daisy patch, over w]jjYJi the Xew

n rs crossed bifoje the ' i ■ I lien 4 w< re » v; , 5,1 v <!<.;.•] ai.d wounded lyiuu in a zone swept by and Mb- 'in . < the wui: ilfd was heard r 1 nil out. •! ■« m]ml a d...-t : ' Kvery I i:■ | ill- hi:i:i mend In- < : n ti: ■ '1 nr';i-i; i 11. a ll(i I ie- I»uli' l - \. : .! !t I j|,' I !;■; , hilling tile <I;U>V ji,;! c!( :mm! w lii-Ll: i;. 1 ! <i\ i r t!'.•* In Mt li in v:i >t r rr 11• 11 h u'S ' 1;i!m ' 1 n.v( r. I '.j ( :'n t . i.. -rim- ii> ■ '' '-Hitdi ti '!!;■: !Ir. i; i. 1 1,, | |V]| ai.d went to the w:i ; * 1 A ,:i a->M-i a ice. ;i im! w er: t. ii.i'-l. :•» i'. , t hi> n; i :i. 1 lII* hP-l lll;i II le I'!' : !h ! i - { ii,' \-, -.l_• one. lie Wits dead. 'I V le c|or all t'ie time under Jiiv cut oil' \U\> nun's iden[il'uMti(ui disc and put i; in hi- pockd. He then found tile lm:Mii■ I lliai) ,Hid endeavored In mil him I'd w ivd in ' li.- 1 trench; hut he was a i»ea\ v man and tu ' ] task was an iiU|iu--iliic « ue, so he n--j turned to t.in 1 tfencli am! called l'<u" tv..i\ \oh:nleer.s to help hits) I" brinti the m,in j in. Two privates, Domt :d-on and IJ.i Iy.'n'l (-{t'd Aucklandi, iuine diately volunteered. and the three t !:ei» went to Ihe wounded man, lifted ir'nn ii|> and proceeded to carry hji:i in, the builds whist about llicm all tin* lime. Near in;r the trench a sniper L-«rt Dr. and lie fell shot through the tliii;h. At the same time Da!/,hi fe'l, rind, tiiroiun the ]<% Thus the three men fell in a heap just as they wen" ( >n the point uf if aching safety. Donald-on managed to dra;r tlie wounded man into the Irene' 1 ), iind Staeey, the doctoj's orderly, and others, *»'ot the doctor and also Dal/.hd into the trench. Stacy, whom I saw j the other day at Alexandria, made j of his particular part of the adventuie. j

"It was niithin;;'." he -aid. "I was und"f cover nearly ail the time." a -dateni'-'uf. that from other sources I -uhseipu in ly toiuid was not strictly accurate. Stacy, however, dressed fin' doctor's wound, stayed wilh him in the trdieh fill nightfall. and then accompanied iii:a on tY» thn-c-niile journey t-< de- <liv*.Mu<r station and a subsequent four and a-h:.!f mile- journey lo tlie beach. It was it M'Vrii and it half miles journey for the strcteher-bearer, as the route was not a direct one, and it was 2.15 a.m. »»«'- £ore they reached the b'.tch hospital. After they had i;oiu- abort three miles of their journey the Turk* burst ii sta." sholl over them and they received a burs! nf rifle lire from a of 4'tO or ./.Ml yards. One of tin* bearers with the stretcher in front wa* shot thronvh the head. Dr. '('raijee i.- i;ow on his way bark to Ills regiment r-ii tie' JN'iiinsti!«.

A IS R[ I,LI AXT FRENCH CHARf.E. IMi (lie afterllol.ll of Saturday, the SUi May, while some <,]' tlie Xew Zcalandcrs were lying in a trench at tne Daisy Patch inul singing a little to ke< ]> up their spirits, a man suddenly called out. that the French were retiring. Sone' time before tliey liad watehed them a 1vance in a long hlne line. Xow it seenied as if they had broken and were retreating helter-skelter to iheir old treuelies. The Turks, noting the retreat, came on en masse. The French then retired to their second line, and the Turks promptly occupied the fir-t line of trenches. Then the deadly "7.Vs" .jot, to work. They had the ranee to a nice'. c. "'id, with high explosive shells aiid' shrapnel, they gave the tunny a terrible time. Ihe (ire was so rapid that a curtain of black smoke and dust arose from the bursting shells, and under cover of this eloud tlie French infantry reformed and charged back with wild yells. Wh.it the guns had left undone was accomplished with the bayonet.