THE DARDANELLES

Taranaki Daily News, 11 August 1915, Page 5

THE DARDANELLES

■f ~ "GOT THE BEGGARS." I V.C. JACICA'S EXPLOIT. Received August 10, 9.30 p.m. Sydney, August 10. Captain Bean elaborates the story of Corporal Jack's winning the Victoria Cross. Just as day was breaking the ■Turks threw bombs into an Australian trench, killing two and wounding four. They, took possession of the trench, killing a 6 officer who went to ascertain the position. Jacka, lonehanded, held the Turks while assistance was sought. Lieutenant Hamilton rushed up, but was Bhot dead. Another officer arrived with i « platoon, and called out for volunteers ior the job. .Three Bendigonians volunteered. The first man was shot as soon as he put his head round the corner. Jtcka jumped bade, and while the rest ' «f the party held the end of the fire • trench he Scrambled through a communication trench to the other end. The | fife trench party, bearing shots, charged .through ami found Jacka with an un lighted cigarette in his mouth, and a .flushed face. He . said, "I've managed to get the beggars, sir." The trench .was blocked with Turks, Jacka having shot five, and had just finished bayoneting the remaining two. TURKISH CRUISER SUNK. BLOWN UP BY SUBMARINE. MOST OF DREW SAVED. Constantinople, August 9. Official: The battleship Hairddin Barbarossa, 8901 tons, carrying six llin guns (formerly the Kurfurat Friedrich Wnlhelm) has been sunk by an allied submarine. The majority of the crew were saved. KAISER'S ARABIAN LAMP. TURKS MAKE A CAPTURE. Amsterdam, August 9. Advices from Damascus state that the Kaiser's "Arabian lamp," of his own design, for Saladin's tomb, was presented with full ceremony at Constantinople on August ninth. A communique states that in some fighting at Seddul-Bahr the Turks captured sixty Englishmen, including a major, and' two lieutenants. COLONIALS LOING WELL. LETTER FROM GENERAL GODLEY. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Yesterday. In a letter to Colonel Campbell, Coast Defence Commander, General Godley speaks in the highest terms of the officers under him, and especially of the artillery, which, he says, "has done extraordinarily well. Referring to the .spirit of the men and life in the trenyiics he says: "Going round the trenches, notwithstanding the heavy casualties and the daily toll that shells and snipers take from them, the one cry from nil the men is to know when they are going to advance, and their one wish is to get out and fight the Turic in the. open. Mining and counter mining, bonHw, periscope rifles, sandbags, barbel wire and corrugated iron are our weapons of warfare, and we spend most of our time grovelling in saps or mines or crawling and crouching in the trenches trying to avoid the wily sniper."