WELSH MINERS ON STRIKE.

Timaru Herald, Volume CIII, Issue 15743, 30 August 1915, Page 7

WELSH MINERS ON STRIKE.

Received 2.10 p.m., August 29th. LONDON, August 27

Renter's Dardanelles correspondent writes —The night march of the Australians and New Zealanders from Sari Bair will live in the history of the campaign. The ground gained hy the attack was Lonesome Pine plateau right in front. Tno immediate object was to prevent the Turks reinforcing elsewhere. The operation involved some of the severest fighting of tho campaign. An Australian storming party charged sixty yards across open ground. None wavered, none tried to get bade. Deeds of bravery were so numerous that it is impossible to recount them all.

Tho men climbed over the trenches and searched for spots where they could pull up heavy squared logs forming the roof of holes made, in the face of a terrific machine gun fire. The Austria liacs jumped down ten feet into tho trenches, the Turks awaiting them with bayonets, bombs and rifles. The Turks fought desperately amid piles of dead. One hundred and twenty were captured and 600 were buried on Lonesome Pine, and this was the merest incident in the main operations by which the Australians and New Zealanders gained elbowroom. Many thousands were taken from the crowded Anzac trenches and dugouts and sent to tho hills forming the northern boundary of the newly occupied position. One important advantage is that now fresh water is obtainable within the position.

The Turks on the 9th swarmed down from the ridges ill an effort to sweep off the Australians. Xew Zealanders and British from tlio hillside, and were driven back with frightful losses. We retain our footing on Rhododendron Ridge, despite the Turks occupation of the main ridge above. The Turks lost here between the 31st July and 10th August five thousand, of whom 2600 were killed on Lonesome Pine plateau the dead lying thickly on the slopes. The Turks were unable to bury them and threw the corpses from the crests whence they rolled down the slopes, choking the gullies. The stench ;s appalling. Narrow strips of sand in the bottom of the gullies are piled with dead—a horrifying eight, viewed even from a mile distant. ]

A Turkish eight-incher is still shelling the beaches at Anzac, but the work proceeds smoothly.

HOT WORK AT SUVLA. BY IRISH DIVISION. A stirring bayonet attack was made on the 19th on the left of the Suvla position, by the Irish division, which captured Chocolate Hill. They crept round the base of tho Turkish position under heavy tire and reached a ridge facing the Turkish ridge. The battalion, cheering, charged with the bayonet. The Turks came out and a desperat-e conflict took place between ihe ridges. The Irish bayonets stabbed and flashed for several minntes and the Turks then {led to the outer crest, while the Irish stood on the top and fired down the hillside at the fleeing enemy.

A NEW ZEALAX DF.R'S EXPERIENCE. LONDON. August 2". A wounded Now Zealander who participated in the landing at Suvla Bay says: "No soldier was previously aware of the momentous movement. We were as much in the dark as the Turks. The scene was almost uncanny, as if wo were in a dead man's land. Not a word was spoken as we stepped ashore and fixed bayonets after landing from transports and all kinds of craft. I shook and shuddered as I looked back at the long line of motionless battleships and cruisers that guarded our landing. The ghostly majesty of the Navy in that moonlit scene was a deathless picture. "All night long we advanced to specified positions. Many hour 3, during which the hea.t was broiling, elapsed before we came to grips with the enemy. We entrenched on a little hilltop. The Turks made a succession of foiled spurts to shift us. This continued for a few days. Then the band began to play in earnest. We encountered swarms of the enemy, who had been reinforced. They were only twenty yards r,way. I never saw so many whitehaired old chaps. Wo outed them by the dozen. The Turks used all sorts of missiles. They appeared to have a good supply of bricks and stones. They even rolled huge rocks down the hillside. The fighting continued for days, ihe losses on both sides were large, '■ut we woa,"

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A GREEK LEGION

Received 3.35 p.m., August 29th. PARIS, August 28

The "Gaulois" states that a Hellenic Legion, including many Cretan and Greek volunteers from France, co-ope-rated at the Suvla landing. The Legion made a feint at another landing place, and the Turks were completely tricked. They rushed troops to the spot, and a lively combat ensued in which the Legion lost thirty-two. TURKISH REPORT. SAYS ALLIES~WASTE AMMUNITION. AMSTERDAM, August 28. A Turkish communique 6tates: The enemy is keeping up a strong artillery fire at Anafarta, Ari Burnu and Seddul Bahr, wasting great quantities of ammunition.

Weak forces on Wednesday attempted to break our left wing.

TURKISH REPORT.

GROUND LOST OF LITTLE VALUE. BERLIN, Aug. 28. A Turkish wireless message states: " The British on the 21st made a violent attempt to improve their position at Salt Lake. They were foiled, despite terrific naval gunfire and several well-sustained infantry charges. Ground hitherto gained is of little I value if an attack on the Dardanelles forts was the objective, since every advantage of position remained with the Turks.

FEELING IN CONSTANTINOPLE.

HATRED OF GERMANS

SUBMARINES' PRESSURE FELT.

Received 4.30 p.m., August 29th

ATHENS, August 2S.

The population of Stamboul is irritated at the sight of thousands of wounded arriving day and night. Many officers and public functionaries openly express views against the Germans, and do not conceal their conviction that the moment when they will be driven out is approaching. Prices of provisions are exorbitant owing to tho suspension of coastal trade through fear of tho Allies' submarines.

A PRETTY LITTLE STORY

POSSIBLY TRUE.

"Timet" and Sydney "Sun" Servicat, Press Association—By Tel.—Copyright.

Received 7.25 p.m., August 28th. LONDON., August 27

According to an Athens paper an English officer, wearing a Turkish uniform and speaking the language, recently appeared in Pera (a suburb of Constantinople) where he purchased provisions to the value of £2OO and had them taken to Galata and put into a boat. At the point of the pistol he made tho boatman go to an island where a British submarine was waiting for liim.