ACRES OF DEAD.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 225, 21 September 1915, Page 5

ACRES OF DEAD.

STORMING SARI BATEN.Z. TROOPS' TERRIBLE TASBgßecdvc- 11.53 a.m.)LONDON, September 20. Mr. Until.' .Mckenzie. ti.<- High Cmlipoli, has been int.-rvio'.vod. lb- sais lloi Now Zealandors and Australians wore giv.n a special job on try- nigh! ■ t the eighth of August of ..:. attack .•; the i, tluil- leading to Sari li.ur. win, ii ;- 1 ho key to the situation. ' 1 iVii:J:c «a- (erriiic." in- s.iv . "During lb-' night wn advanced iwn'iiules ..n I t,-, k all th-- nd_ s and foothills le.i.lni.: lo tin- n.a.ii I'li-ki-'i [t)t,ilmn. Moanwlnl. tin- British lan-h-d at -i.vla Bay sevi r.u r■ mi nts. i'he ( .1-li-hting of the rnosl a fill character. My regiment was pr.i'li aliv v.ipc.l .-v! .in>l many other New -.-.iLmd. r-. in, 'vi.v g the Maoris fared ju-t v, i,.i,.iv. I :„• M -n,- ,-n the suiiiunt -..as '„-,. >!ol ,!• -c;i|,|, n. iriiicuis I, : I _.|,.n .■ ! «, If ..til I .vv.ir Is An.if..:M i, Igo I. for, tlicv won- driv.-n back ny Turkish ma. line g,iii,. win h „•:» woii-lorf-a'. Th, on, u_, uppar-i.li> i.ad "11,,- Turks were ais,, |,i iiicion; m ~ .ml,----1.i11i.-j,. V* .. a.lvdii., 1 ii- 'il :!:,. . n-i ~f our In..- w.i. '• n yard- ir ni, the . ic-t of the bill lilld wo' .lei- i,01.1 ,:|„,i, -i,,. Turks, v.,,.-, tr.Mi.-h.-s w. r. liillv ,„arne.!, d.-spite 11... warships' ~r0v,.,„s h'.-aw •,. mbardment The in:,,.. ,„■:,. ilin.wiii. Inmdr.ds of Uinb- '.•:!, right and bit hand. Ihe hand lighting v..,s ~f a s-n - guinnrx , ■Lara-tor A high ,-vp! ,- r.- -li, I bur.-it immediatch in fr.,',l of mo. blowing in l»,tl, , yes. ' t ,:!,.■. -v lee | „,,, r , .-' scratch,-l. I , raw 1.-d ever limp of d.., | lo the rearward, assisted :.• .i .-::•:. :,.-r t.-aior. who her.-.icall. .-xp.."..! linns-ll t , an aw,' V fir-, alter. ling io It., wound.-1, main of whom laid f-r fi.rtv .-iglit hours with,.ill water under a blazing .-ir... I was Ih- ~:;!-. on,- ~',;,. (~ walk, and I rea, he,] ti.- h-is;,ml .|„p t li. rt v hour, after 1 was wounded Some of mv iwn rados nev, r re. hod ti... ship K.-r" Inr,■lavs in. Turks iii;.i; oes.-fu.'v .... ii,-,i the hospital ,s!,jr," In sj it- of tins. M- Ma. k-nzie pays a tribute to ll o 01.-an rm L...1.- ~f the Tiix ka.