ACHI BABA A SMALL GIBRALTAR

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 147, 23 June 1915, Page 7

ACHI BABA A SMALL GIBRALTAR

IMPORT ANT, HEADWAY EXPECTED ALEXANDRIA, 22nd June, Further wounded soldiers have arrived from Cape Helles and Gaba Tepe. They describe Achi Gaba as a small Gibraltar. If British soldiers hekl the position it would never be taken. The Turks during an attack on the 18th of May were warned if they wavered or attempted to retire they would be annihilated by their own machine guns. The first line flung themselves on the ground one hundred yards fronthe Australian and New Zealand trenches, and maintained a hot rifle fire. • The second came on at the double and passed through them. The first line then rose and followed, the whole coming on in close formation with bayonets fixed. Otu' guns met them at point-blank range with terviblo effect. i British reinforcements arc continually arriving at Gallipoli, and lmw>rUnt « _ieadv/3y is nor/ expected.

THE WILY TURK— INVISIBLY ENTRENCHED. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON, 22nd June. An Australian in the Dardanelles writes : — "The Turks seem to be making their last desperate stand against eviction from Europe. It has become one continuous battle day and night. We are more like spectators than anything else. The wily Turk very seldom shows himself outside the trenches. He is dug in so skilfully that artillery has not much effect. "There is one hill where the Turks have been entrenched since the start. We have covered it with shells, knocked lumps oh* it, and raked it for days. When we ceased, out came the Turk with his 6in guns and spat at us."