GALLIPOLI TO-DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1919, Page 7

GALLIPOLI TO-DAY.

PILGRIMAGE TO ANZAjC. FAMOUS POSTS REVISITED. TO ."-ALLAjJT DEAD. London, Dec. SO. The special commits iouor in the Mediterranean for the Sydney San cable service telegraphs from Galiipoli:— We made a pilgrimage to Anzac on the anniversary of the evacuation. The British divisional commander, Colonel Findiay (New Zealand Mounted Rifles) and Colonel Richardson (Australian Light Horse), with their staffs and a large number of officers and men of the combined forces, visited Anzac, Captain Jepson acting as guide. Approaching from the south-east of Lone Pine, over the melancholy wilds, we reached the close and narrow trenches still in a fair state of preservation, and seemingly little touched since tin days of battle. Thi party visited Quinn's, Pope's, and Courtney's Russell'3 Top, Shrapnel Gully, and Walker's Ridge, and then proceeded to the Cove. General Oroker, commanding the 2Sth Division, said that Anzac was a wc • ierful sight for a soldier. It must have been the scejie of the most intense trench warfare of the war; indeed, the most intense imaginable. He had no idea that the troops had been {need with such difficulties, and vas surprised that uueh ihiags had been [ossihle. lie was satis- j ned that the Galiipoli campaign had an i enormous effect iipon the war by destroy- I ing the flower of the Turkish armies.

Colonel Finally paid a glowing tribute to f .he lirroic achievements, indomitable perseverance, tenacity and endurance of the Anzaes.

Colone'. Richardson made a sympathetic and appreciative reference to the courage of the brave comrades who were buried there. We then returnd along thebeaeh past Number Two Post, Warden's Point, Hill 60, and post Biyuk, Ana&.ita, Boghali and Maidoa.

OFF THE DARDANELLES. TOWNSHIP OF GALLIPOLI London, Dec. Describing his visit to the Dardanelles, the Sydney Sun's commissioner says: — I journeyed to the Dardanelles aboard the destroyer which, with her Australian f istersliips, has been a part of the wonderful allied barrago in the Mediterranean. Sombre yet eager failings stirred li l '-' truly Australian company as they came at dawn within sight of the sandy cliffs and low, dark-treed plains s which .sere Auzae. Snow has rapped the peaks, aad water washes against the old wrecks of the piers.

We strain our eyes to try to get a glimpse of the cemeteries, but nothing shows on the rugged, barren hills or the sharp bluffs of the cliCs of the lower levels.

Verdant green relieves the bleakness, and small patches of cultivation show where the peasants work. The Promised Land must have looked fairer from the An/.acs' heights than it seems now when victory has opened the gates, but the Tictors find only a blighted nation, Ihe township of Gallipoli is the one' relief. It is large, red-roofed, and substantial, but it is only when wc reach wonderful Constantinople that one sees the magnitude of the issue of the Anzacs' landing, what vast possibilities were staked, and why the de.fenc.'j was so tenacious and strong. Mr. Peacock boarded at lludros : cruiser that had just arrived from Sydlookin S "equal to- anything in thfl Mediterranean."