THE DARDANELLES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 27 May 1915, Page 5

THE DARDANELLES.

AUSTRALASIAN EXPLOITS

TURKS WILL NOT WAIT FOR THE J3AYONET.

ENEMY'S ARTILLERY CLEVERLY

CONCEALED

aHE SCENE OF A HERO'S DEATH

CAIRO, May 26

Reuter says the Australasian and Turkish trenches at Sari Bahr were sometimes only thirty yards apart. In many cases the colonials would catch the Turkish grenades and immediately fling them back, so that they would «fecplode in the Turkish trenches. The Australasians mre continually playing

tricks. One filled a jam tin with cot--tgn wool soaked in oil and set it alight and flung it in a trench. The Turks scattered in all directions^ amid the colonials' cheers.

There was the greatest difficulty in locating the Turkish artillery. Directly an aeroplane mounts the Turkish fire ceases, and not a shot from a heavy gun is fired at night. It is be-

lieved the guns are run underground

on rails to a given spot. A few shots are fired, and then tho guns are diverted/ to another emplacement.

' The Turks never come to close quarters with the Australasians, for directly they see the bayonets they are off. The Turks are poor rifle shots, but are fairly accurate with the machine guns, which, alone are holding the colonials. Stories of atrocities 'must 1)6 accepted with reserve, as they are seldom first-hand information. After a recent assault at Gaba Tepe, the Turkish commander permitted the

British to bury their dead and carry / off their wounded. The position at Gtiba Tepe is very strong, being a mass of vtrenches. The, Queen Elizabeth con "tames to do great work. In one case a long jine cf camels was seen on the bills, sixteen miles distant, and the warship fired a shot at the camels/ which were not seen again. LONDON, May 26. "The scene of Colonel Doughty Wyllie's death has been named Doughty Wyllie Hill. (Colonel Doughty Wyllie, of the

staff superintending the landing of the .4 Australasians, on going ashore ran in

in front of the foremost Australasians

and shouted to the men to follow, and they carried position after position until the enemy was cleared out, the colonel being shot dead.) The Hon. Sir John McCall (AgentGeneral for Tasmania), who visited the

Tasmanian wounded in England, states ifchat the, Dardanelles wounds are heal-

ititg much better than wounds of corresponding gravity received in France.

This is attributed to the less cultivated •soil of Gallipoli.