DAYLIGHT'S REVELATION.
As daylight came it was seen that a landing had effected rather further north of Gabatepe than was originally intended, at a point where the cliffs rise sheer. It was a blessing in disguise, because there was no glacis down which the enemy could fire. The broken ground afforded good cover once the attackers had passed the forty yards of flat beach.
The country in the vicinity of the landing is formidable and forbidding. To the sea, It presents a steep front broken into innumerable ridges, bluffs, valleys and sandpits, rising to a height if several hundred feet. The surface is bare crumbly sandstone, covered with thick shrubbery about six feet high, ideal for snipers as the Australasians soon found out to their cost. On the other hand the Australasians proved themselves adepts at this kind of warfare.
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Northern Advocate, 8 May 1915, Page 5
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