THE ATTACK ON SARI BAIR.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 3 September 1915, Page 7

THE ATTACK ON SARI BAIR.

DESCRIBED BY ASHMEAD BARTLETT.

AUSTRALASIAN HARDIHOOD 4\D RECKLESS COURAGE. ' *

(Received Sep. 3, 2.30 p.m.)

™ , , LONDON, Sep. 2. Mi; Ashmead Bartlett, in a, despatch dated the 19th. states that since the .greatest battle at Gallipoli closed on the 10th, botli armies have been busy consolidating positions, replenishing ammunition and reorganising units which had -intermingled m the rugged mountainous' country.

"I visited," he says, "the ground where the Anzac corps in advance- made ■desperate efforts for four days to reach "the crest of Sari Bair, commanding access to the highest peak, namely Hojatfhemen, which is torn asunder by a ■giant ravine.- The New Zealand'infantry Brigade, the Gurkhas and other battalions almost reached their objective, but were unable to hold, through •no fault of their own. A battalion of Gurkhas actually reached the crest of the plateau and at the same moment the Turks, taking advantage of the confusion, counter-attacked. \\ith great force and drove- the Gur.khas back to the lower spurs.

Survivors, who obtained views of the. .promised land, describe the waters of the Dardanelles lying beneath with a Turkish transport staciiiiing southward. They also looked down the Narrows to Kilid Bahr.

liitter disappointment wat; felt at relinquishing the vi ost \y]j:u r.lniost in their grasp after no uiany mont'is, but there was no alternative' 'Die Aiizacs I'ought like lions, and iiccornpSi.shed n feat oi' ajTiis aliiiost withnr.t jiMulle! ■by climbing tho?-e ):eiL';l]t.<. al+Jior.^h liandicapped by the failiuvoorlr anotliev corps to make got.'d its po.-iti-ms at 'Anai'arta. still further north, i'oj- the j/iirpr;-e t.'f c]\Qc\ur:-r t l-:'.- ;:::":;y'> sh.^i fiiv. When the details tl^sp '-n'.ij:]:- ---;■-!>■:! opera ho'" - ;'''(' si!'tr:< (hoy v, ii! ('(/!••)! one of ihe I'lfisl ]'s'-:ciri:-n ii".; }>;;;•:> *, of the war's history. it >vas a (■<;;:>.- ---hv.':'i-.i giants In :\ :.';i:>.r,t couvLr,.', ;.;;!.I the outstanding fact is l.he inarvellnus k:T<}\}u>')<], tt^nsK-ity. :r,i<] i-(.'cl<'ess cour'■i.Ue oi1 tlje Austrjili;'.; = s au-i >.'fnv Ze:1.L'Tr 1 :•>■■:, S''r -)•.;si w;» i<:r!zet t:;c jjf.vt J!1-".'--: '-.;■■ :.' *' :. v.; '.I- C v '■ "'••■ iish army.