AUSTRALASIANS' SIGNAL.
! ' .* > • "HOLDING THEM EASILY." VAIN TURKISH ASSAULTS. "" « TWELVE HOURS' BATTLE. (Received May 29. 12.53 a.m.) v Athens, May 27. Details to hand of the fighting at Qaba Tepe on May 21 show that the Turks attacked at three o'clock in the morning. They made desperate assaults in serried columns for twelve hours, when the Australasians were able to signal, "Holding them easily." Then the New Zealanders and Australians drove back the enemy, with their bayonets, pursuing them in the open and effecting great slaughter.
Despite the loss of the battleships everyone- is most confident. Optimism has been increased by the fact being established that the Turks and Germans are short of ammunition. Their shrapnel shells are loaded with pebbles. Shells with an inner case of wood are being used. These were supplied by German contractors when the Kaiser was fraternising with the - ex-Sultan, Abdul Hamid. '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15930, 29 May 1915, Page 8
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146AUSTRALASIANS' SIGNAL. New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15930, 29 May 1915, Page 8
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