"A WONDERFUL PERFORMANCE"
NAVAL .OFFICER'S TRIBUTE TO THE AUSTRALIANS. .
LONDON, May 28. A 'naval officer at the Dardanelles writes to "The Times" as follows: — "The Australians obtained the most startling success. We rushed (xajo ashore in half an hour, and. they were absolutely irresistible. The first two boats were wiped out. The remainder went through everything as if it did not exist. Barbed wire did not c-heck them, and the trenches were child's play. They did not fire much, but used their bayonets with tremendous effect, killing every Turk and German within reach, and capturing the deadly machine guns. Then they charged up a .hill 700 feet high, clearing, 'everything before them. .Hot shrapnel {ire drov« them, down partly, "aneP-they doggedly dug themserves'in halfway up, achieving a wonderful performs n cc. The landing"-wak''; a- great blow to tlic. Turco-Germans, who thought the place impregnable."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 9153, 29 May 1915, Page 5
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