FOUGHT LIKE LIONS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14700, 3 September 1915, Page 7

FOUGHT LIKE LIONS.

GRIM STRUGGLE FOB ANAFAETA HILLS. SPLENDID WORK BY COLONIALS. Press Association.—Telegraph—Copyright. Received September 3, 2.30 p.m. LONDON, September 2. Air Ashmead Bartlett, in a despatch da let! the 19th, states: Since the greatest battle at Gallipoli closed on the 10th, both armies have been busy consolidating their positions, replenishing their ammunition, and reorganising their units, which became intermngled in the rugged, mountainous cuontry. I visited the ground where the Anzac Corps advanced by desperate efforts for four days to reach the crest of Sari Bair, commanding a ridge giving access to the highest peak, namely, Hojachemcn, which is torn asunder by a giant ravine. The New Zealand Infantry Brigade, the Ghurkas. and other battalions almost reached their objective, but were unable to hold on from no fault of their own. A battalion of Gurkhas actually reached the crest plateau, but at the same moment the Turks, taking advantage of the confusion, counter-attack-ed with great force, and drove the Gurkhas back 'to the lower spurs. Survivors who obtained views of the promised land describe the waters of the Dardanelles as lying beneath, with a Turkish transport steaming southward. The position also looked down on the Narrows to Kilid Bahr. There was bitter disappointment at relinquishing the crest when it' was almost in our grasp, after so many months, but there was no alternative. The Arzacs fought like lions, and aceomolished a feat almost without parallel in climbing those heights, although handicapped by the failure of ‘another corps to ni.iV good its positions on the Anafarta hills further north for the purnose of checking the enemv’s shell fire. When details of the complicated operations are sifted, they will form one of the most fascinating pages of the war’s historv. It was a combat between giants in a giant country. An outstanding fact was the marvellous hardihood, tenacity, and reckless courage of the Australians and New Zealanders, hut we will not forget the part played by a division of the New English Army.

N.Z. CASUALTIES

THE LATEST LIST. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, September 3. KILLED IN ACTION. Wellington Mounted Rifles.—Lieutenants H. Taylor, A. Batchelor, F. Kettle and A. Wilder. N.Z. Medical Corps.—Lieut.-Colonel C. Thomas. DIED OF DYSENTERY. Wellington Battalion.—Private C. Hennessey. i WOUNDED. Wellington Battalion.— Sergeant A. Langham, Lance-Corporal R. Potter, Privates P. Brown, .1. Middley, C. McNaught, T. Waruock, W. Watson and D. McLeod. Otago Ba tabon.—Privates L. Price, D. B-** rs n. .1. 1 ny, H. Lockett, 6. Hyland, J. Roxburgh, I ancc-Corporals P. Crawford and A. Gianfell, Sergeant 11. W. Rain. N.Z. Medical Corps.—Private H. Gunning. Field Ambulance (Mounted Brigade).— Corporal E. Drake, Privates A. Dodds, A. East, W. Thompson. Canterbury Battalion.—Lieutenant Stitt, Private L. O’Loughlin. Canterbury Mounted Rifles.—Lieut. R. C. Deck. Canterbury Mounted Rifles.—Lieutenants D. Murchison, D. Cheesmen, Major H. Hurst. Canterbury Mounted Rifles.—Trooper F. Morrison. Otago Mounted Rifles.—Lieutenants G. Fergu=on and W. Howie. Otago Mounted Rifles.—Trooper C. Dires