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GALLIPOLI FIGHT OF JUNE 28.
VICTORY OF BRITISH BAYONETS.
STORMING THE NULLAH TRENCHES.
Reuter's special correspondent at the Dardanelles telegraphs under date June 29th:-
platen between the cliff and the sew, which were carried in brilliant fashion, the men tearing through the gaps made by our feld artillery in the wire..
INSECTS AS CARRIERS OF DISEASE.
SIR F. TREVES A VICTIM.
INTIMATIONE
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The Arst two trenches are very close together and small opposition was en- countered. The trenches were full of
The National League for Physical Turkish dead, and about a hundred sur-
On the right of the cation and Improvement held a meet- rivors surrendered. Nullah two battalions delivered a spletnaugurate a campaign to prevent "the ing at the Marion House last month to did attack simultaneously, capturing two sprend of epidemics by insects in war lines of trenches and some prisoners. time." Bishop Boyd Carpenter presided Yesterday as the result of a brilliantt. Further to the right and ju frons of Kri-ia the absences of Sir Frederick Trees, tack by our forces a tale of ground was this our attacks cuconatered very severe who wrote; gniued on our left, front, and the enemy opposition and practically no headway "I am sorry I cannot attend the met were driven out of five lines of trenches was made. The real objective, however, ing. More than a month ago-just before. with very heavy loss. A strategical ad-
was the ground on the left of the Nullah. I left for Mudros-I acquired, through At 11.30 a.m. an advance was made overflies, I expect, a complaint in Alexandria vantage was gained, which will essentially
the lines of trenches already captured, and which has got gradually worse, until now notify the situation in our favour
In order to appreciate what happened our men took two more lines of Turkish am laid up in bed and unable to do it must be remembered that the attack on
trenches. This, for the onlookers, was the anything. Had I been able to attend the June 4th left us with an outward bulge in must spectacular moment of the day. These meeting I should have liked to have hid the centre of the fine, the centre having two first lines of trenches were separatedress upon the gravity and importance In South Africs during bten pushed forward about thousand from the first two by several hundred of the subject, yards in advane of the flatiks,
mds of speecundar men could be the war there were more casualties due As far as the right was concerned, the seen, the sun shining on their layouts, fier than to bullets In France the
presence of so many unbinied dead mikes! inequality was corrected to a certain ex-advancing in magnifient style as if
The whole opera-
the fly question a very serious one. In tent by the French advance last week. On enemy were near them. the left flank, where at many pointe curtion was carried out in from half an hour Alexandria, owing to the vast number of trenches were only a few yards from the 1 an hour. The enemy were fairly on cavalry horse lines near the town the Turks, local fighting has been incessant the run and could be seen from the ships troups of the flies is becoming really dis
tressing. It only wants a definite souren of infection to be introduced for an since June 4th. The enemy has been hom hurriedly retiring.
In the afteranen our troops were fur-epidemic to run rampant A Bold MACGREGOR&C.. ed out of trench after trench, and has
looked upon as counter-attacked desperately. At night gaged in beating off the enemy's counter-
but a spreader there have been short and bloody scuffestacks. The Turkish-artillery was very of disease. When once the people realize what the fly can do, and does. do,, the front trench to trench, which have usually active, but was outmatched by onry,
Here is a work within: resulted in our men bombing and bayonet which, moving its range up as our troops remedy is easy. ing the Turks out of the particular section advanced, kept a line of shells bursting the compass of the humblest, a really WINE&ESPIRIT MERCHANTS. of the trench attacked.
Fly-borne disease-should Fon the enemy's receding front all day. At great work.
of the
To the desperate quality of these mostly unchrenicled encounters the condition of the newly-cupied trenches hears sicken Ling witness The central part of the position on the left is a long, deep, wind ing ravia, led by our Army the Nu- lah, and markeri on Turkish maps as the Saghir Der river, of which it is the bed. The Nullah runs up from the sea for several mity to the hill barrier of which Achi Baba is the central point, where in the first and second line of the conquer tropical diseases whose labours have dona
in the evening the Irigade which cap-tease to exist. Its-very-existener is a tured the two last lines of trenches made discredit to the intelligence
further advance, supported by the bat-people" talion of Iulian troops, to capture the Bishop Boyd Carpenter referred to the small roving in front of their position.noyance caused by flies, and mentioned the difficult conditions prevailing in tho and in this it succeeded.
Its course, although very irregular, is roughly parallel with the seashore, and in it you are never more than a half-mie from the st Lapally the distance is less.
The night was fairly quiet, but about trenches. He referred to an outbreak of 4 in the morning n force of about 400 Turkphus in Ireland which was traced t who had worked their way down the Nu infected clothing which was import- Jah climbed up on to the plateau betweened from Glasgow.
Dr. Samba, the eminent authority-on
They were detected and in a converging Maxin and rish fire
Not more than were utterly crushed. quarter escaped back into the Nullab
VALLEY, OF HORRORS.
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carriers of infection, sketched the history of former wars in relation to epidemics, and showed how terrible the effect of these diseases could be upon armies. He told 75 Ch. To-day was spent in consolidating the again shortly the story of the Pam On the left the Nullah is separated from position gained and in clearing up the Canal and of the warfare waged by the the sea by a high, anrrow platean, from mess leit behind by the Turks. This after mosquito of yellow fever, which defeated
Americans, under Gorgas, against the Dozen. the award edge of which you have a sheernoon I examined the position in the Sul and destroyed the French effort. drop of 400ft, and more to the water's lah and the Boomerang trench.
The lasBambon spoke also of the terrors of Ledges The opposing trenches start from ter, although I am told the worst has been elephantiasis and hook-worm disease in FOR HOME the very edge of the cliff across the plateau, cleared away, remains the most horrible the tropics, and said we hari neglected to dip into the Nullah, and start again from place on earth. In the lotion of the deal with these preventable diseases" the other side of it, whence they run across Nullah dead Turks are ing in shallow as we should have done, America hat led the peninsula. It was the coastal plateau pools of green water. Many have kain the way. This was a misfortune, kines from the bottom of the Nullah to the sea
our scientific workers were the finest in against which the main weight of the at tack on June 28th was launched.
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In the Boomerang and British treuches the world, We must deal with flies as around it, which were all originally To-Gorgas dealt with the mosquito. The kish. the stench is frightful. The para-recent outbreak of typhus in Serbia killed pets are built up over bodies of gent men, more men than did the Austrians. Tarks and British, for the Turss use thephus which destroyed the French Army
Probably you tell your boy to get junk * Oil ** dead as bullet-stoppers, and after a fightin is over throw earth over them to make application of scientific knowledge in the from the Compradore. Why not tell him to
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the disease.
*FISH" OR CROWN "?
The whole of the Boomerang is still full of Turkish equipment, rifles, bayonets, bombs, cartridge belts, and boxes,
In the Nullah itself, che seg piles of
the retreat from Moscow.
Yet
The way for the attack was prepared by the mest tremendous hammering from our artillery that the eremy has yet At 9 in the morning our heavy artifery, the quantity and weight. of which must have been a surprise to the enemy, opened a terrific fire of heavy shek on the Turkish trenches and kept it un for two bourg. From the sos a aumber bot farther up the const plastered the way through yesterday, as the artillery euemy's position, The destroyers could not reach it. The list of captures is verine and Scorpion also here a useful not yet complete. Over 200 prisoners were taken and a vast amount of equipment: par in hammering the enemy's trenches.
It was a magnificent sight from the cliff together with a large number of machine guas, of which many were buried by the above Cape Helles to see the huge bursta Turks in the trenches. Many of the pri- of sujoke and dust leaping up in an even line following the cause of the enemy's soners are wounded. trenches with deadly precision. High over everything floated an observation hal. loan fettered to a ship and "spotting for our gunners, who never aimed to be ter purpose. An enemy aeroplane tried to drop a ficab on the balloon, but missed
of ships close to Cape -Helles and the Ta barbed wire which our men had eat the which had been arranged at the Zoologi-] get something good. Besides, you will
and was driven off.
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"A FLY YEAR."? Professor Lefroy, who dealt chiefly with the house-fly, said that the exhibition
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The result of the attack yesterday was that we pushed our left well cut beyond "1 the centre. The extreme left resting on the sea is now the most advanced portion of the line, which slopes diagonally across the peninsula, the right being well south ward of the left, Yesterday's attack had At 10.30 our field artillery opened fire. its own object, which was fixed before-cleanliness, especially in the home, and Their special target was the barbed wire hand, and was attained. in front of the enemy's trenches, They- were completely successful. Gaps were cut through the wire in all parts of the line, as the speed with which the infantry attack was carried to a victorious concin- sion showed.
THE BOOMERANG RUSHED.
Now was the time for the work of the
THE AGONY OF POLAND,
HOSTILE FORCES WHO PRAYED INSTEAD OF FIGHTING.
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THE STING OF SCIATICA.
The stinging pains, the stabbing kaffe
we must exercise measures of fly control.
Professor Simpson, of King's College, strongly supported these views. · A subae quent speaker, a member of the United States Health Service, emphasized the im- portance of enlisting women in the campaign. Women could do so very much in the home if their sympathies were aroused. They could prevent dirt and also see to it that all animal nnd veget-thrusts of agony-the fearful tortures of this dread disease have a more terrors for those who have tried and so know the power of LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BALY If you have not need this miraculous remedy your faith may be weak. You may doubt its efficacy. You despair of relief. But note this fact: vaat multitudes of Betation vietima have been cured by LITTLE'S ORIENTAL HALM. They suffered as you do. They doubled as you do But they tried it, used it, and the pain diappeared. Go thou and do likewis Today is the
The terrible plight of the Poles is vivid-able refuse was burnt. ly pietured by a writer in the Journal da Geneve.
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DECISION FOR CONTINUANCE OF THE GAME.
At a conference of the English, Scotish, Southern and Irish Leagues held at
seen.. In this torrent of humanity there are 1,500,000 Poles, but they are not fight-Blackpool a month ago, it was unanimous-time. ing under the sanie flag. They are fight ing against one another in the three camps. Can a more tragic fate be conceived
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infantry to begin. In the bottom of the Nullah the British, and Turkish eatposts mrt a few yards apart with barbed-wire harricades and sandbags between them. Us For nine months, says the writer, three the right side that is, locking up the Nul- immense armies have been fighting in Inh-the Turks had a position known as the Poland. The Russians have invaded Boomerang Fort or Boomerang trench Austrian Poland; the Germans Russian from its shape. It is main trench, with Poland, Millions of armed men are ever. innumerable independent saps running" pouring into those regions and lighting along the side of the ravine, which it en- battles the like of which have never been tere about 100 yards behind what was then the Turkish firing line
The Boomerang enfiladed all attempts to advance up or along the side of the ravine, and has been the scene of many bomb attack, which resulted in the cap Two hostile detachments. composed
In view of thas possibility of LOUD ture of Turkish trenches by our men, who wholly of Poles, unexpectedly found the leagues deciding upon a class of football. were now close to the Boomerang itselt selves lace to face near Limonova, in this inconsistent with the ⚫ competitions that they had only to hap over their own Carpathians. They were so close that hitherto provided, it was agreed to treat parapets, cross a few yards of ground, and they could hear one another talking in all players of clubs connected with any jump into it. Needless to say that, as at Polish, Moved by a sudden impulse they league other than their own, as retained erdinary times, it was ecurting death to knelt down and recited the Lord's Prayer, players, and clubs cannot sign, or attempt show one's head above the parapet, the after which they retired in separate directo sign, any such players without the cou- danger of the enterprise could not be esti- tions. Not a shot had been fired. They sent of the club for which they were mated by the distance. The task of cap. met again some days later, lost amid the registered on April 30th last. turing the Boomerang was assigned to a mass of armies, and killed one another: Each league is to consider the desir- famous regiment which has an unbroken without knowing it.
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to advance, The men were waiting Austro-German armies. Almost the whole- crouched under the parapets of the of Austrian Poland, inhabited by eight Committee of the Football League retom. Ja nistorical interest showing the diagons- trenches, with their rifles at the ready.million souls, was till quite recently in th; mended that in view of the pressing need stou of the forms at the batue of Kwaille, All were on raised platforms or on ladbands of the Russians. Five thousand for recruits and workers capable of his dedicated to Bir dera. so that they could get over the para villages and 200 towns have been bombard-ngaging in supplying munitions of war, G.C.M.G., £ad Dr. A. Busan,
ed and burnt. All industry is paralysed vad in the hope that every eligible young Everywhere there is misery, famine, and man will find in the service of the nation disease.
* higher call than the playing of football. be League competition for next season should not be proceeded with.
pet in a single bound. At a signal the men sprang over the top and rushed ncreas the intervening space and jumped The down into the Boomerang trench.
The victory of Germany and Austria British troops got into the trench with would mean for the Poles a continuance of surprisingly small loss, and, once inside, the partition at present in force, and the they made short work of the defenders. ruin of the hopes of the Poles.
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Ite description of Chiness. Bogleh Unstons and Superstition, somnisimet with the insight it gives into politik sonditions in China, make “ CHILDIN FAS CATHAY" so excellent volume for
The position was captured in a few tery of Russia means the reconstruction London, whether the usual competit Presentation to friends at Hom
minuter,
of Polish unity under the Tsar, a prospect CHARGE IM THE OPEN,
which is not regarded with enthusiasm, The main attack was launched at 11;
The Poles want the Western Powers when on the artillery extending their persuade Russia to make them independ range. three battalions rushed the first ent. as one of the indispensables elements three lines of the Turkish trenches on the of the new Europe.
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