ANOTHER CALL ON COLONIAL TROOPS.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 6493, 21 September 1915, Page 3

ANOTHER CALL ON COLONIAL TROOPS.

Meets with Courageous Response.

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London, Sept 19 I Ileut^r's correspondent with the headquarters staft at Gallipoli, under date September 4th, gives a vivid description of the situation at Anzac during the last week in August, The gallant Australians and New Zealanclers were called on for yet auother effort and responded with their usual courage and devotion. As a result Knoll GO passed finally into our hands and four hundred acies of ground was added to the Anzac knoll, this Leing the last crest of the last ridge separating Auzac from the northward plain.

The lurks clung to the knoll with the utmost determination. When flung out of their trenches by an irresistible rush by the Australians aud New Zealanders the Turks would bomb their way back again, accepting terrible loss unflinchingly When the trenches were finally captured ihey were full of the enemy s dead. It took three days' hard fighting to turn out the Turks. The grouud wherever we charged was still thickly strewn with bodies of the enemy aud our slain. Turks Lose 5000 Men. ' Ifc is computed that the Turks lost iivo thousand men. The ludiau and Conuaught Hangers shared the fighting. The Australians and New Zealauders have since been expecting a Turkish general attack, but this has not materialised. The Turks had not forgotten Lone Piue trenches and the results of their descent from the lowering ridge of Chunuku Bair on August 10, when the New Zealanders did all they were asked to do, aud when a British battalion was later swept oft' the ridge by twelve Turkish battalions the

enemy charged into a tremendous ravine below, aud on coming down the steep side came under.the fire of ten machine guns under Captain Walliugford.