A BATTLE CRY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 146, 21 June 1915, Page 8

A BATTLE CRY.

'TUSHEE YALLAH!" CoTporal C. B. Crocker, who returned to Chiwtchureli Oast week, states;— "To show- you how commonplace phrases stick and become famous. In 'Egypt the horses used to be taken out aod sheltered under the palm trees. Natives used to coice along aud try to sell ■boiled eggs. TJheir <cry vals, 'Eggs a cook, Eggs a cook.' The men didn't want them, bo they titled to say, flmshete Ya'llah,' 'Which means, 'Go! Clear out!' Well, the wounded <told us that when the Australians charged with the bayonet they yelled at the, top of the'rr voices, 'Eggs a cook! Imshee YaJlah! Eggs a cook! Imehee Yallali!' It had become their war-ory.

"Snipers were everywhere, it seems, and good ehote too. They picked >ofT the officers, and the men say that they acted almost entirely on their own. After the one big Mil there were a succession of smaller ones, and they took thiree altogether. Snipere also shot the stretcheT bearers who went to tend the wounded.

"The wounded men stated that the New Zealanders did not land till 10 hours Jaiber. The Australians, wfoo had obtained a footing, had to stick it out on their own all that time; the Turkish fire was too 'intense to allow of reinforcements landing any sooner. We heard that out of 'the Queensland battalion, which :ie over 1000 men, only 28 turned up with whole skins. One thing the wounded arc sure ol—all of them are unanimous in saying that, if uiiybody but the Turks luid opposed the landing, not a single man iwould have set a foot on shore alive. From what I heard, there cannot be much doubt about that*