TURKS' DESPERATE STAND.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13718, 23 June 1915, Page 3

TURKS' DESPERATE STAND.

ACfjIBARA DESCRIBED AS A , SMALL GIBRALTAK. CONTINUOUS BATTLE DAY AND NIGHT. ALEXANDRIA, June 22. Further wounded men have* arrived from Cape Helios and Gaba Tope. .lliey describe Achibaba as a small Gibraltar, and say that if British soldiers held the position it would never be taken. i O T , he , Turkß duli »g the attack on May 18th were warned that if they wavered or attempetd to retire they would be annihilated by their own machine-guns. Ihe first line flung themselves on the ground a hundred yards from the Australian and New Zeaeland trenches and maintained a~ hot rifle fire, and the second line came on at the double and passed through them. The first line then rose and followed, the whole coming on m close formation with bayonets fixed. J \ Our guns met them at point-blanß range with terrible effect. British reinforcements are continually arriving at Gallipoli, and important Headway is now expected. (London Times and Sydney Sun Services) ' LONDON, June 22. writ" A "™ ah ?r- 1 , nt fche Dardanelles wiutes: , 'lh e Turks seem to be making a last desperate, stand against their eviction tram Europe. It f Jas become one continuous battle day and night. We are more like spectators than any thing else. The wily Turk very seldom shows himself outside the trenches, and he has dug m so skilfully that artillery J la , s «ot much effect. There is one hill Wr-e the Turks have been entrenched with «h«l] 8 an d knocked lumps off it and mked it for days, and' *whe7 i' o ceased out came the Turk with his »i£ mch guns to spit at us."