TRENCH WARFARE.
SYDNEY, July 30
Captain Bean, cabling from Gaba Tepe on the 19th, says: —"We arc faced by 40 to 50 guns. -About half are 14 and 15-pounders. and the rest 4, 4.6, and 8-inch, and occasionally 10 and 11----inch weapons, with a sprinkling of lighter guns, whose positions arc rapidly changeable, capable of being placed within a few hundred yards of our trenches and quickly removed. There is also an ancient mortar flinging 12-inch bombs.
"The amount of tunnelling, done by the Australians and New Zealanders may be judged from the fact that they have already blown up 17 mines opposite Quinn's Post, in almost every -case destroying the .Turkish tunnel. The New Zealanders in one day throw 570 bombs from Quinn's Post, which the engineers recently altered out of all recognition."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 2733, 31 July 1915, Page 5
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