DISHEARTENED TURKS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16008, 28 August 1915, Page 8

DISHEARTENED TURKS.

TOO MANY SHELLS, V _ C ■ v'; £55® UNBEARABLE HARDSHIPS. §f That the heroic work of the alli e , af - '** Dardanelles is havin~ a di* " * effect uj>on the Turks"i s shown stones told by a party of forty Turlrit ' prisoners who were landed at an 4 ? " ern Mediterranean Base" recant! v ' J h "- v Si " d they hud had the intention to surrender lor a long ti me Das W°» chance 01 dotng so w as oui , * last Saturday night. Asked the reason for their action, they attributed it t maltreatment by the officers and to tii ° unbearable sufferings and hardships. tneir unbeatable sufferings ana hardships. 0 of tnem, who appeared to be above ih! average ot the nn-i-eme of his com panions, said thai mscouiagemeut ' general among the rank a ud 'm o £. th! , lurtieh Army. ' ,T 6 , -We have to fight," he proceeded. ; • for days and nights. sometimes wnhout t a rest, and tins, ik- ,onui.^ a mgn , a I canny, "is not the liaison n ar. i , • • 1 ti&Y© ! been m battle at L.ult t>urgas, twit never ° ' uul never ; did I experience sum a lain oj bursting j shells as 1 had to go through in" Ualif ! poll. 1 saw a whole u 0 oar men mown down by youi anuierv one from that cornpam iame out" It was beyond human enuuiaiite to KjiJj. stand it. i.\en we 'Ottomans must and flee, however much, peing to believe in Kismet, we despise..(feata* j This prisoner was referring the recent tremendous execution by the French heavy held artiherr i which caught the Turkish troo^ ! sent to attack the French position! j while they v.ere still in marching i onaar j tion, and mowed them down by hundred Sl ' before they could deploy and fall jjjj. ! skirmishing order for t.ie attack, i several French oriuers stated, the enemy l left 5000 corpses on that stricken battlefield, where the allies' losses in killed , j and wounded were only half this ctmbej, . i ____________