GREAT BRITAIN'S GREATEST PIANOS !

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20436, 16 August 1915, Page 3

GREAT BRITAIN'S GREATEST PIANOS !

Of the celebrated English instruments stocked by The Bristol Piano Co. Ltd., none enjoysl such an enviable reputation as the Broadwood piano. One might say that it is the "Gold Standard of the Piano Industry. Made by the oldest-established firm of piano manufacturers in the British Empire — John Broadwood and Sons, Ltd., every model is the result of nearly 200 years' adherence to the highest ideals in piano consl ruction. During its long history the Uroadwood has been helped towards perfection by the world's Master Musi•cians. Their'influence is found in its exquisitely dedicate touch and sympathetic, resonant and perfectly modulated tone.

Other British-built Pianos at "The Bristol' include the excellent and reliable Sames and the renowned Collard and Collard. The famous Canadian Organs—the Bell and the Imperial—are also on view in a variety of models. All these superb instruments are offered on attractive and easy terms. The Bristol Piano'■. Do., Ltd.. Wellington. North Inland Manager, M. J. Brookes. Warehouse Representative, P. B. Lomax.

.shell had plumped right into Colonel Braithwaite's dug-out, and Major Pinwill's dug-out had also been hit. In the ' afternoon "Startling Annie" came at us ' again. She had the range and was mak- j ing good practice. One shell landed ] amongst a group of men, killing two and wounding several others. A few minutes afterwards the men were about as uual, and another bathing party was in for a swim. In the hospital, which is really a clearing station, Colonel Begg was having a very lively time. Some of his men have been killed, others wounded. Once a shell burst right in the tent while the doctors were operating. The patient, the operator, and the attendants were all covered with dust, but strangely enough no one was hit. The operating tent has simply been riddled with bullets, but j recently the hospital people have made j their position more secure by digging further into the hill. The Turks are not, of course, wilfully shelling this hospital, as we call it, they are simply shelling our position, and we are in such a- confined space that they cannot help occasionally hitting the hospita.l. The hospital ship, which lies just olf shore, is easily within their range, and can be seen from their observation post, but it i& never shelled, though a shot aimed at our supply ships may Sometimes go near it.. Indeed, our fa lows all regard the Turks as very fair fighters, and, as a matter of fact, the much-talked-about atrocities have been very few and far between. I have refrained hitherto from writing anything in detail on this subject until I could make personal and definite enquiries, and, so far, though I heard innumerable stories about such deeds, I have been able to get confirmatory evidence of only two. New Zealandere may therefore take with a grain of salt any wild rumours that may reach them about Turkish atrocities. We have also evidence that the Turkish doctors are doing rfl they can for our wounded prisoners. They have several of our wounded and several prisoners at Constantinople. That same evening, the Turks treated us to a little more shrapnel, and one shell burst right in front of us, amongst the bathers, one man getting a bullet through the throat. He was able to walk out of the water, and the stretcher-bearers carried him to the dressing-station. Thus ended my first day at the war. It was what they called "a rather quiet day at Anzac." A NAVAL DEMONSTRATION. The following morning, looking away south toward Helles, we could see some big ships; and, early is the afternoon, two battleships and a crowd of torpedodestroyers, put in an appearance. It looked' as if there was going to oe something doing. One of the battleships came up our way, with her attendant destroyers, and began to shell a Turkish t position or Turkish troops on a plain j away on o\ir right front. From a high place, to which we climbed by steep paths and along communication trenches, we had a splendid view of the whole performance—the flashes of flame and the smoke from the big guns; then the burst inland with a cloud of earth and dust in the air. It seemed as if the battleship with one gun was dealing with something comparatively near at hand, and was treating something further inland—the result of which we coud not see—with her broadsides. Away on the heights of Kilid-Bahr—a long, dominating ridge above the scrubcovered plain—we coti'd see e'early the flash of the Turkish guns in reply, and still more clearly the fleecy white puffs of smoke as the shrapnel burst about the battleship. Several of these Turkish shots were well aimed, but probably did little damage. After a time the battle-ship, with her attendant dcs- j troyers, turned gracefully and steamed ! away to the south-west. Whether anything was doing at Helles or not we could not tell. The wind being against us, we could scarcely expect to hear the | sound of any firing there. Near the middle of the Kilid-Bahr Plateau— a long ridge from our point of view— we could see, right on the sky-lino, three big heaps of something that looked like brushwood. The Turks could scarcely ha.ye placed them there with the idea of getting our men to fire on them on the supposition that they covered gun positions. At any rate, we wasted no ammunition on them. Probably they are'mount Tor use as a signal beacon to give a warning somewhere or other in the even of the fall of AchiBaba. Their smoke by day and their flame by night would make an effective signal to troops in almost any part of the Peninsula. Some day, no doubt, wo shall know what they mean. It was from the left of this position and lower down on the face of the hil! that the Turkish guns were flashing. The battleship did not fire on them, nnd avo ascertained later that her broadsides were directed at the village of Chanak, which ie a supply base, coy-

creel with a strongly fortified position. Presently the observers were able to report that Chanak was in flames. From any of our high positions we could see the smoke rising in dense volume. Toward the southern end of Kilid Bahr we could plainly observe the long communication •trenches leading up to the Turkish position, and it eeemed as if our men would have a hard, though not an insuperable task, in taking this position after the possihe fall of Achi Babn. Already there are eight gun emplacements on it, though we do not know of more than the four guns that havo quite recently appeared in that quarter—the four that fired at the battleship. From the foot of Kildid Bahr the country is a gently-sloping plateau, with occasional low depressions lending down to the sea. On this plateau is "the olive grove," from which a field g\m —engaged by some of the Australian batteries —fired at us. Away to the south, inland, and rising from elevated land, h Achi Baba, a low, pointed hill, dominating the surrounding plateau. It is a much less conspicuous feature in the landscape than one imag-

ined, but has been very strongly fortified, and is a hard nut to crack.

Looking northward and eastward, ono was simply amazed at the tremendous difficulties that faced the Australians and New Zealanders, and marvelled not only that they had gained these positions, but that they were able to make good in them. The ridges are now a maze of trenches and communication trenches, and in one spot the contending parties are at close grips in positions that almost join—mining and counter-mining, bombing, and sharpshooting. A glance at the map shows such names as "Suicide Guliey," "Shrapnel Valley," "Dead Man's ■Ridge", and "The Bloody Angle." One cannot, of course, risk writing anything about the positions, even in a letter lhat has to travel thousands of miles to New Zealand before it is published, and the reader, in any case, would not understand the situation clearly without n map, and that, of course, it is quite impossible to publish. The names, however, give some idea of the desperate nature of the enterprise that our colonial citizen soldiers undertook and carried out with such conspicuous gallant-

i%y, initiative, and dash. "Dead Man's llidge," said a man to me, "By, Jove, ,>ou she uld have seen that the day the Marines went up! The machine guns simply swept them down in swathes, and the place was absolutely covered with dead men. They remained opposite our lines for eight days, and we could not get near them!" Some idea of the fighting may be gathered from the fact that in one place, on the crest of a ridge, the farthest Turkish trenches are only forty yards away, while in one spot the trenches have only about ten yards of intervening space between them, and in the listening galleries underground the miners hear each Othello t work. : From our vantage point, with an occasional enemy bullet "pinging" over our heads, we could plainly see the Turkish trenches to the north an«l north-east, and presently the Turkish gun—a field piece that works from an undiscoverable position inland in "the direction of Anafarta and Salt Lake llidge—opened on our left flank positions, sending the men into their shelter trenches and dug-outs. A crowd1 of bathers in the sea on the extreme left

did ont bother to leave the beach, but I remained there naked watching the shelling. Off-shore at some considerable distance was the balloon-ship, and in a ! beautiful summer sky, in front of the I Island of Samothrace, floated the observation kite balloon —a strangely- , shaped blob of ■brown against the blue. ! Between Inibros and the Peninsula a • crowd of destroyers swept in a grand | circle, keenly alert for submarines. Later came the popping sound of n 1 motor«on«ino. and craning our necks ! heavenward we saw coming out of the eye of the sun a "taube." She hoy- ' ered for a brief space over our trenches, : but a well-placed shrapnel from one of our batteries scared her off. As she 1 went she dropped a few bombs and what appeared to be a lot of leaflets. The latter fluttered downward? glistening in the sun as they fell, and then the "taube" flew off to the southward and was seen no more that day.