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Taranaki Daily News, 20 October 1915, Page 6

Captain Ernest Harston, oJ Napier, gives the following graphic account of the underground fighting between the British and Turkish sappers on Gallipoli: "A lot of mining and countermining naturally goes on here when we are so dose, and young earthquakes of varying dimensions often do their best to disturb our equanimity. Some time ago there was a Turkish sap rapidly approaching one of ours. Our miners heard them, and waited patiently until the Turks were almost upon them, when they exploded a fine healthy charge under them with, in this instance, disastrous results to the Turks' equanimity. Some time later our men went along the tunnel to investigate, and were squatting with two revolvers each, looking into things in general. Then they heard Turkish voices and got ready. Suddenly something fell with a crack in the pitchy darkness of a mine, so they emptied their revolvers. The reply iVfts a bomb. So these intrepid devils sent back for a basketful, and both parties indulged in that delightful and exhilarating pastime of bombing each other until they were tired. Can you imagine it all? The close stuffy atmosphere, heavy with 'dust and pregnant .with sudden death, the pitchy darkness hiding unseen enemies, then the sudden blinding flash and booming reverberation of the death-dealing bombs. It was a nightmare of hell in the darkness."