LIMIT IN IMPUDENCE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11511, 6 October 1915, Page 1

LIMIT IN IMPUDENCE.

PHOTOGRAPHED ENEMY TRENCH j FREMAN'fLE, September 23. ] Corporal Keegan, of New Sout.li; Walts, who lost, an eye at Lonesome ; Pine, was among thoso to arrive by a hospital ship to-d-iy. Ho gives some j interesting; particulars about tho fight- j in 5 at Galhpoli. ; lie tells'of an instance- of Australian! cheek. During an armistice granted : to tho Turks, when they buried <OOO or j their dead, many of the Australians; went close to the Turkish trenches, but it was remarkable how far the Turks kept from the Australian troops. Ono Australian was observed coolly to approach a, Turkish trench, camera in hand, and before he could be stopped' ho took, a photograph of the- enemy's position. Even the Australians themselves deemed' this, to'bo the limit in cheek. "Our trench mortars are a revelation," says Corporal Keegan. " They are'of Japanese invention, and they are deadly in shoit-range work. They tilt, upwards, and you can easily mark tho riso .of the projectile and its straight [ downward path. Bomb-throwing, too, , is quite an art. Squalls of our men ; are told off and drilled as bomb-throw- I ers, .and they have to be very quick of j eye and prompt in decision. The Turk- j ish bombs are copper things # with a j plumb for a fuse about the size of a shilling. Wo-protect ourselves from! these by wire netting; but when you take a few trenches, and you haven't, time to put the wire nett ; ng up, then I it is you get the full benefit or bombs; and hand grenades." j