IN ASIA MINOR.
A GREAT FIGHT. GURKHAS VERSUS TURKS. Received' June 8, 10.50 p.m. London. June 8. Mr. K. Candler (Daily News correspondent), describing the fight at Deitaisha on April 15, states that the Gurkhas fought so fiercely that dead Turks choked the trenches. They weTe either clubbed or bayonetted.
The Turks in the evening counterattacked with twelve battalions, chiefly triops from Gallipoli. the pick of the Turkish army. The Gurkhas held them for twenty minutes, but could not get ammunition quick enough, so they fell back. The fight became a promiscuous melee, the killing being done with bayonets, rifle-butts, and revolvers. Some o? our field gunners fired chance shots and rattled tlie Turks, who retired. A howitzer battery swept them, with the result that fifteen hundred dead Turks on this sector were counted next morning. Three thousand were killed during the fight. '
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 June 1916, Page 5
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143IN ASIA MINOR. Taranaki Daily News, 9 June 1916, Page 5
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