A SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
ON THE SIDE OF THE TURKS
TWO CURIOUS YARNS (.Received 14th October, 2 p.m.) LONDON, 13th October. General de Nogales, the Venezuelan, who commanded a Turkish division in. the "World War, in his "Memoirs of a Soldier of Fortune," published to-day, has a curious yarn of how a cockadoodledoo ruined the attack on the Suez Canal in January, 1915, and possibly cost the Central Powers the victory, as the cutting of ttu Uanal would have cut oft' England from India and Australia, and caused the revolt of Islam against the Western Powers. Two Turkish reservists approaching the Canal concealed several chickens and a rooster in their saddle bags, in order to have fresh eggs. At dawn the rooster let off a sonorous crow which put the British wise to the Turkish attack. Do Nogales also narrates that after the Turkish evacuation of Bir es Sabah the Third Imperial Lancers were defending the rear against tho Allied cavalry. One squadron of Turks sallied out and defied an Australian squadron to mortal combat. The Cross and Crescent clashed, and after the fight only three dozen Australians and Turks remained standing in their stirrups.- Not a rifle nor machine-gun was fired until the survivors retreated to their respective lines.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 91, 14 October 1931, Page 10
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