IN THE DARDANELLES

New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9077, 23 June 1915, Page 7

IN THE DARDANELLES

ONE CONTINUOUS BATTLE DAY AND NIGHT By Telegraph — Press Association — Copyright. “Times" and Sydney “Sun” Services. * (Received June 22, 5.40 p.m.) LONDON, June 22. 4ft Australian in the Dardanelles writes“Tlie Turks seem to be making their last desperate stand against eviction from Europe. It has become one continuous battle day and night. We are more like spectators than anything'else. The wily Turk very seldom shows himself outside the trenches. He is dug in so skilfully that artillery has not got much effect. “There is one'hill where the Turks have been entrenched since the start. We have <-overed it with shells, knocked lumps off it, and raked it for days. When we had ceased, out came the Turk with his six-inch guns and spit at us.” ' ■ . ACHI BABA A SMALL GIBRALTAR (Received June 23, 1 a.m.) ALEXANDRIA. June 22. Further wounded soldiers have arrived from Cape Helles and Gaha Tens Thev describe Aohi Baba as a small Gibraltar. If British soldiers held the position it would never be taken. . ~ . , ... The Turks during an attack on the eighteenth of May were warned if thev wavered or attempted to retire they would be annihilated by their own machine guns. The first line flung themselves on the ground one hundred yards from the Australian and Now Zealand trenches and maintained a hot rlflS The'second came on at the double and passed through them. The first line then rose and followed, the whole coming on in close formation with bayonets fixed. ~ ~ , a . ' Our guns met them at point-blank range with terrible effect. , British reinforcements arc continually arriving at Gallipoli and important headway is now expected. "