AT GALLIPOLI.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 561, 26 November 1915, Page 8

AT GALLIPOLI.

SOME VIOLENT FIGHTING. A TURKISH REPORT. V AMSTERDAM, November 24. A Turkish official communique says:— "We captured an English aeroplane, which was shot down. The pilot was taken prisoner. "There is violent fighting on our right and at Sedd-el-Bahr, and violent bomb-fighting in the centre." FOOD FOR THE TROOPS. THE BEEF UNEATABLE; LONDON, November 25. Mr J. Cathcart Wason, in a letter to the "Daily Chronicle," asserts that the bully beef supplied to the troops at Gallipoli is uneatable until it is cooked and partially washed. The New Zealanders, who make it a point of honour not to complain, say that the meat is responsible for much of the stomach troubles among the men. Mr Foster, in reply to a question in the House of Commons, said he had tasted the beef, and found it excellent. He was making enquiries. Mr Wason suggested that Lord Plunket and Lord Islington should be asked to report on the matter. TRIBUTE TO AUSTRALASIANS. • ______ "SHOULD BE IN FRANCE." Mr Ashmead Bartlett, lecturing at the Queen's Hall, said it was a thousand pities that the Australians and New Zealanders, who Were magnificent fighters, were not concentrated in France, where they would play a big part in an important attack in the future. We really could hurt the Germans in France and Flanders.