NEW ZEALANDERS' LATEST FIGHT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 224, 20 September 1915, Page 6

NEW ZEALANDERS' LATEST FIGHT.

GALLANT CHARGE ON TURKISH LINE. GALLIPOLEAN HILI- 6O CARRIED WITH IRRESISTIBLE DASH. TURKS LOSE 5,000 IN THE FIGHTING. CAPTAIN WALLINGFORD'S MACHINE-GUN BATTERY'S CHARGE. (Received 2.-15 p.m.) LONDON, September 10. Router's correspondent with the British headquarters in (iallipoli, writing on September 4. gives a vivid ilevcription of the situation Rt Anzai". Up says that during the last week in August the K^' ll, " l Australians ami New Zoalaiulers were railed on for yet another on\>rt, and responded with their wonted courage and devotion. As a result. Knoll lid passed finally into our hands, and 400 acres of ground were ndded m the Anzae poeitio-.i. The knoll is the Inst crest of the last riilge separating Anzac from the northward plain. The Turks clung to the knoll with the utmost determination. When iiung out of a trench by an irresistible rush of Australians and New Zealiiii.lers, the enemy would iioinli hie way back accepting terrible loss unflinchingly. When the trt-uchee were finally captured they wero full of the enemy's dead. Jt took three days' hard tightinj; to turn out the Turks. The ground wherever we charged is still thickly strewn with bodies of the enemy's and our own slain. It is computed that the Turks lost 5.000. The Indians and the (onnaught Rangers shared the lighting. The Australians and New Zealanders have since been exacting a Turkish general attack, but it luis not materialised. The Turks have not forgotten the Lone I'ine trenches, ami the result of their descent from the towering ridge of C'hunuk Hair on 10th August, when the New Zealanders did all they were asked to do. When the ltritish battalions were later swept off the ridge by twelve Turkish battalions the enemy charged into a tremendous ravine below, and coming down the steep side, came under the fire of ten machine-guns under Captain Wallingford. The machine gunners claim that .>,IM>O were killed. A New Zealand stuff officer, describing the tight, said th»i the Turks came down in thousands and went hack in hundreds. The correspondent continues that in any case the Turk* must have realised that they were courting death if they made a general attack on the An/.ac defences. The men behind them are the ealt of the earth, equal in courage to any troops, and superior in physique to any but picked men of other countries, and in intelligence, self reliance and endurance the best soldiers in the world. Danger at Anzac can only come from physical overstrain and the bodily weariness of the troops. The world realises now how the Australian* and New Zealanders have fought, but does not know how they dug themselves in and heaved and carried when not fighting.