FELT LIKE A TORTOISE.
DODGING SHELLS AT THE DARDANELLES. MOUNTAIN GUNS AT WORK. / (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) (Received 5.30 a.m.) LOXDOX, June 20. An officer at the Dardanelles writes under a recent date: '"I haveibeen a great deal in the firing trenches. They are most interesting. They are mostly deep enough to walk upright in without exposure. ] went round with Genera] Birdwood and Admiral Thursby one day. They fired on us a lot, but never got nearer than six inches. 1 saw the mountain guns at work. The enemy caught one of tlie Australian guns a fair smack, killed the officers, wounded seven, and killed, twentysix horses and mules. Subsequently we sat on top of a hill where four days before it was highly unsafe even to lie.- When retnrning our party delayed to collect some firewood, a-.d this undoubtedly saved our lives, as four shells suddenly burst thirty yards away. I bolted for* a dugout in a precious funk, and felt like a tortoise on whose shell someone was tapping with a coal hammer."
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 146, 21 June 1915, Page 5
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