LANDING AT DARDANELLES.
NAVAL OFFICER'S PRAISE.
" IRRESISTIBLE DASH."
Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received May 28. 6.40 p.m.) London, May 27. [ A naval officer engaged at the Dardanelles writes to the Times that the Australians obtained almost startling success. "We rushed 6000 ashore in half-an-hour," he writes. " Their dash was absolutely irresistible. The first two boat loads were wiped out. The remainder went through everything. Barbed-wire did not check them, and the trenches were child's play. They did not fire much, but used their bayonets with tremendous effect,-killing every Turk and German within -their reach, and capturing deadly machine-guns. They then charged up. a hill 700 ft, clearing everything before them. Hot shrapnel fire drove them down some distance, but they doggedly dug themselves in half way,, achieving a wonderful performance. The landing was a great blow to the Turks and Germans, who thought that the place was impregnable."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15930, 29 May 1915, Page 8
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