ON GALLIPOLI
AUSTRALASIANS' COOLNESS GOING UP TO THE FIRING LINE. (Received May 28, noon.) SYDNEY, This Day. Capt. Bean, the official Australian cor. respondent with the forces at the Dardanelles, cabling on the 23rd, says:> — After three days' attack by the Allied infantry on the Turkish positions, the Australian Brigade received orders to be in fighting column of line with the ,New Zealand Brigade. Four hundred yards ahead lay the British firing trench, the most advanced position, not connected with the communication trenches. It was the only scrap of cover for twelve hundred yards. The moment the leading companies appeared they were met with a steady fire. The operations were carried out as calmly as if in Egypt. A perfect hail of Bhrapnel followed, out ot which came the infantry as if nothing was happening. It reached the British trench,' where it took a breather ; and then advanced across the open ground, the men dropping faat, for a further five hundred yards, where it dug in and held the position.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 125, 28 May 1915, Page 8
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