FIGHTING AT GALUPOLI.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 222, 17 September 1915, Page 8

FIGHTING AT GALUPOLI.

HOLDING THE GROUND AT ANZAG

THE GASSING QUESTION

DUR FIELD OF OPERATIONS,

(From MALCOLM ROSS, War Correspondent with the New Zealand Forces.) ANZAC COVE, July 19. •Since I last wrote there has been little or no change in the position. We remain in statu quo. and. though each day has its incidents and incidences, there

is necessarily a great deal that the war correspondent cannot at this juncture be permitted to discus*. We are all expectintlv looking forward to approaching events. Meantime the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps is MicceWully hanging on to its little bit of the 1 en.nsula. while the Allies in the south are hammering a«ay at Achi Baba. which largely dominates the situation, and can not be taken without considerable losses on our side as well as on tbe side ol the Turk.s. TIIE NEW ZEALAND POSITION". New Zealanders will naturally he anxious to know what their forces have been doing of late, and I may perhaps be allowed in a succeeding article to gne a general narrative of the week's doings. They will already have gathered from the lists ol killed and wounded cabled officially and published in the newspapers long before this reaches the Dominion tha°t. although as yet no forward move is being made, there is nevertheless a fair amount af activity being displayed day by day and night by night in the firing line. Not only is this the case, but the whole position is daily Undct shell lire. Meantime our defences, though they are repeatedly shelled by the enemy, are being materially improved and strengthened. The rugged -uture of the country ou our front, however. gives the enemy great facilities in regard to the disposition of h», artillery, and makes it extremely difficult for us to locate his guns or to knock them out once they have been located. VA ith his •wider terrain also, he has the ad\antage of moving his batteries either by night or by day from one position to another. =0 far the Turk has "played the game," and the fighting has been -lean. An exception may perhaps be made in regard to the first few days of the campaign, but it is certain that the tales one heard about atrocities were greatly exaggerated. The question we are now concernei about is whether, under German precept and example, the Turk will condescend to use. or be forced to use, those diabolical aids to warfare that :'or the first time in the world's history and in defiance of all convention were used in Europe by the modern Hun. One feels plmcot certain that, if left to his own devices, the Turk would not descend to the use of such methods. I Note.—The remainder of this article has been bodily cut out by the censor.)