LAND AND SEA WATER.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 232, 29 September 1915, Page 6

LAND AND SEA WATER.

DARDANELLES OPERATIONS. INDISPENSABLE NAVY. (Time* .lEtl Sydney Sun SerrlrnO LQXDOS, September 20. Mr F-. AahjnesH Rartlett. the wejl k_no»n war correspondent, writing from the Dardanelles, — "Of ail the warn' that ! have over fallo-wed. that in Gallipoli is the most instructive ami interesting, and more full th»n a.ny other of Strang oontrwto ami *nomaJi<*. Interest never pall. l -, even when the major operation.-* com- , to 1 htaiidstiil. Tim reason is the >iranf!t\ unusual rhararter of the ttrupjrle, al-o the constant cooperation ol tho Array and Navy. It is the double caznpaipi on laud and sea whirh adds enonnoue.'y to the infrpet. "I ha\' , had a unique opportunity of , ooropariii£ ta* t«o The cum I paign would be impossible -a without thj I iinmcncr number o'. trawler* and i drifter*, carrying a!! the nupplies to the i troop* on shore from thr ba--w. which ih»\e hern ni.tde sair apunst oubmanne JHttack*. Tne ere-Tv.- are out in il! \ weather?, frequently for Iβ hourx at a rrretrh. They ;ire ■ i- rxpo-fti to the pdmbj '* shell fi.-e. They are n rough, hardy l"t .-inJ eirrllcn: ecaanrn. if lift to do tlitn-R their own wa\. The; are not resprrters o< pervotrs. Thr\ .ire (Trent srrumMor.-. bin their -v.6rk is ilwny» ilone rffirirntly. ■An o!d Uevonshir-' skipper was licanl to remark, 'li'o lurkv Grorj»e ',mrthew lure trawler*:' There u< a lot of truth in that <.kipper'n statement, for ;be».e hardy, s-hallow-drmipht craft have made the Amiv -iiipplicH possible in the pai<t. and the Army mu.>t rely upon them in the winter, when thr flUrrm* turn the praoeful .Metiitrrraacan into a raping wildejnie** ~f choppy sra«. "One of the Navy's moßt arduous dutirtt is keepmp up the nervtce of picket boat*. Thr.«i- jteam pinnaces arc marvellour., formiire the ultimate moajis ol rommuniratnn bet-ween the f.eas and every Iwarh of <;.illipoli Peninftula and the uilaud*. If vo'.i want to "o anywhere yo>i must take a picket, boai. "At Anur. Ca4>e HeJles. tnd Suvla Bay." Mr Bartlctt rnncludpf., ~tb* enczny constantly shells the landing ajad thp picket boats are exposed to shells day and But their work never stops."