WAR NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1915, Page 3

WAR NEWS.

/ - . , ■ ngiaw TUKIUSII ATROCITII'S. -If anyone tells yon that the Turk is not a ornel, inhuman beast, do not believe it," writes a Mastertou soldier who is at tin- Dardanelles, under date June of the diabolical cruelty of the Turks not to regard them as unfit to live. We have always in front of us the Belgian atrocities. We saw evidence of tlieie deeds in Kgypt, and as far as our own company is concerned (and needless to i say the Australians as well) we take practically no prisoners. Snipers we never let live, and we have no hesitation in throwing iheni over the nearest, precipice, or putting them beyond doing further mischief. Snipers may appear brave, but they are really abject cowards. While hidden behind safe positions they are 'brave' in firing on exposed men or on our wounded, but once they are captured they are the billed crin;;in:; cowards you ever saw. The Australian troops are more bitter against, the Turks than we are, because they liavi 1 bicu: sened some very low-down I ricks ;v these comrades or the uu.-moakahlo Hun. The man who says that the reports of Turkish atrocities are untrue is tot'lll.Y out of touch with the lighting on (i:iPipoli Peninsula, Xow, of course, there is less chance of the Turk practising any of his dirty tricks, as we know moat of them, and never "ice a Turk a chance. As soon as we get within striking' dU tance the Turk is out for all time."