FEATS OF NOBLE GALLANTRY.

Timaru Herald, Volume CIII, Issue 15742, 28 August 1915, Page 9

FEATS OF NOBLE GALLANTRY.

AMERICA AND GERMANY.

THE RUSSIAN RETREAT. FALL OF BREST LITGVSK. " PROTRACTED MOBILITY " AS A MILITARY SCHEME. HOW FRANCE "LIVES THE WAR.' TRIBUTE BY MR KIPLING. GERMAN THREAT TO SERYIA,

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Received 10.50 p.m., August 27th. SYDNEY, August 27. Captain Beau cables describing the recent desperate fighting, covered by Mr Aslimead Bartlett ; s message. The work in the forward trenches was a series of desperate and often wildly adventurous combats, and feats as fine as any accomplished in this war. Regarding the First and Third Australian Light Horso. Brigades' attempt to capture the trenches opposite them, he says "For sheer self-sacrifice and heroism this charge has not been surpassed in history. HEAVY TOLL OF LIFE. LONDON, August 27. The casualties at Gallipoli for the past eight days include 780 officers (205 Australians and 109 ,New Zcalandors) of whom 166 : are dead. TURKS IN PALESTINE. PREPARING DEFENCES. "Times" and Sydney "San" Servlcaa. Press Association—By Tel.—Copyright. LONDON, August 26. Paris reports that the Turks are actively digging trenches in the Holy Land and flooding the trenches with water from the Jordan, presumably for defensive purposes, and are razing all high buildings ,in Palestine. A tower an Tirrasanta Convent, near Tiberius, has been demolished, and inscriptions on the ancient walls effaced. TURKISH REINFORCEMENTS SENT. Received 7.40 p.m., August 27th. LONDON, August 26. Athens states that forty thousand Turks are being humedly sent' to the Dardanelles from Constantinople. Many of the ships in harbour and the principal Government buildings have been transformed into hospitals.