MISSING ANZACS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 3108, 29 December 1921, Page 2

MISSING ANZACS.

TOUR thousand STILL ON GALLIPOLI. appeal for exhumation work. LONDON, Nov. 21. A joint statement has Incn sent, to the special representative of the Sydney Sun by Captain Leonard Marlin, a civil engineer. of Rochester, Victoria, and SlallSer ,T eani Frederic Rcdlearn, ot Hohait, who recenti r arrived from Gallipoli, to ap--1 for a renewed offori to locale missing An/aes on Gallipoli. They state that 4000 \nslralit:ns have been ulentiliad, and 4000 a ill ai". missing. They me convinced that many can he lonnd it the search be continued. For example. I .ienlenani Robert \\ allace, )(,: iiptlv ol .Side. \ ii ior::.. Mice ict in lied, identified a lam I .50 ;.i lame Ime and \\ ailu rb Rider in AmaM, wbh the assist- ,.) a f-w Greek*. Vet exhumations have now virtually ce tsed. Rones are visible from the south of Lone Fine abee; the ridge to ( liannk Fair, and also in the irencln ; after every fall ol rain. Captain Martin and Sergeant Rcdfetirn saw a complice skeleton in a ravine east ol Nek t ‘■’melcry. Scattered remains arc vi-ible as far as Mortar Ridge, which is opposite Quinns Rost. Thev included those ol Private . I k-jk, of the Eleventh Fatlalion, which \,ere found <m August 3. and v.eie still litibm-i.-d mi August 20. when lies Id I : and though their official records slmw that a]., iu ?! Australians ate buried in Flirapuel Terrae,•, .mlv 10 have been exhumed. They saw bones ploughed out in the ’ )la\ area, and c..-i alongside the field;.. Indeed, bones arc visible in most n.irts of die liehimg area. Tb a,, is no doubt that some ot them arc Turkish, but many of those examined showed Australian and Fritish buttons and equipment. The whole area, they say. could_ he cleared up in from 12 lo 18 months, given favourable, weather. At present there are seven .'.u.-tralians and two New Zealanders mi Gallipoli, and a few Englishmen, but mostlv 11 reeks are employed.