LINER-LIFE AT THE DARDANELLES.
LUXURY AFLOAT, GRIM WAX AND DIRTY WATER ASHORE.
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Finally I found a rope Inddor and muanged to reach the dock, which was covorod with soldiers, guns and gear of all kinds, I tried to find an officer, but in the darkness, in a ship of this size, it was almost impossible.
CHAMPAGE AND. LUXURY.
Janded with the troops at dawn. I was just in time to "save" "my"; friend, Harry Nevinson, and the Press Officer and our baggage from being crushed beneath one of our own guns. The tug then sheered off and made her way to the starboard side, where we found the ladder and eventually forged our way to it through a crowd of sinall craft.
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fast goes on, and although we are both IRISH RECRUITERS AT THE they will bent the enemy, whatever excited and interested, tho atewarde wait on us with their accustomed efficiency. Nothing can, in fact, disturb their equani- mity or upset their routine and discipline. of years,
war.
It is a
THE SOLDIERS' MESSAGE.
SHIPPING IN PORT
STEAMERS.
VISITORS AT HOTELS.
HONGKONG HOTEL
Mr 0. D.J. Ball Mr&Mrs E. Lernham
and child Mr fl. Bickerton Mr G. Boumaa Mr. O, F. Bnig. Mr B. I rodeky
Mr J. P. How
MIS Longfield
Mr&Mrs W. Manning Dr & Mm O. Marrioti Mr G. Mavar
Mr F. A. Maxwell Mr D. maMurray Dr. H. McKean Me J. stereoki Mr B. K. Melta Mr T. P. Mitel ell Mr H. Molden
Capt H. E. Morton Mr Wm. OVIÐ -
Mr & Mrs R. D Bunn Mr & Mrs W.
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Mr A. Nissim
Mr Dissza
department, that they can beat the enemy;
expedients he resorts to. And when you ask them when they think the war will be over, they will nearly all give you the same answer. Do not ask us that Mr A. H. Aitken Mr Robert Hunter question," they say, it is for you to Mr Goo. E. Anderson, Capt R. Innoss The eclonal commanding the artiljery on
Four members of the Central Council answer that. We are doing our bit. It Mr & Mrs F. X, d Mr R. B. Jepson board is sitting by one of the portholes for Organization of Recruiting is Ire is for you to do the rest.
Send us
Alamada a Cairo Mis e. Johnat, u Finally I groped my way to the bridgeHe has a cup of coffee in one hand and land-Colonel Sir Nugent Everard, The munitions," a general said to me, "und Misd Almada Castro Mr E. M. Joseph and ran across the chief officer, and asked some buttered toast in the other. Sud O'Mahony, Mr. H, S. Doig, and Mr. J. we will send you the victories."
Masterd Almada a Mr A.M. Kirby That is the message we brought back Castro
Mr W. Kleinjung Of all the wars I have ever followed him how we could get our baggage on denly he looks up and rourks: This 25 C. Ferey, of Dublin have returned from
board. He then told me that a ladder was a strange way to do
From this visit which they paid to the front on
Mr C. auritsen from the front, Ithe fighting is to be Mr J H. BackhousG this campaigh in Gallipoli is the most down round the other side, which we had window I can watch the action ashore. Ithe invitation of the War Office. They done abroad, the victory will be won at Mr. . Baring
Mr G. T. Lloyd instructive and interesting, and is the evidently missed in the darkness. I re-can see the shells bursting. I can watch love embodied their experience in
home, Every day that we fose; putting Mr T Eskor fullest in strange contrasts and anomalies turned to the port bow, where I bind. left the enemy replying, and see all our in-series of three interesting, articles, which only half our strength into the effort, is Mr H. Muray Bain The interest never palls, even when thehis small eng, just in time to prevent a fantry as they gradually advance, and at have been written by Mr. Doig, the editor costing us valuable lives in the fighting Mr 2, S. Bios najor oporations come to a standstill from sad catastrophe. I found an 18-pounder the same time cat my breakfast in com- of the Dublin Evening Mail, for the Irish line. The men at the front do not com- Mr R. E. Bellos time to time and both armies giuro at one
Press
plain, but they look anxious to the Mre bein another across the odd hundred yards of unsuspended in mid-air and about to be fort. This is indeed true.
Here is the account of an unconven- people they are fighting for to help them Tom Tiddler's ground that separates the lowered on to the heads of my two friends weird, strange experience, that only comes
In the duck- once in a lifetime. After breakfast, we tional meeting with the Generalissimo of in the only way that we at home can help trenches, The reason is found in the and our precious baggage.
ness the quartermaster in charge hud mis-
them, and in the only way that is needed. watch events from the deck, Our bag. the French Army strange and most unusual character of the taken our tug for a large which was com
We motored next morning to the front. gagu is all packed up ready to depart, but struggle, and also in the constant co-
Our operation between the Army and theng to take off a battery which had to be no boats and no lighters come to take us And, en route, we made a détour to go
off. The infantry ammunition and water through some of the French lines.
chauffeur stopped to seek it direction. Navy. You have, in fact, a double cam-
have to be handed first. At one the bell While we are waiting I noticed a car pass paign on land and sea, which adds enor
mands for lunch, Throughout the after-by.
In it is a French general, all gold' mously to the interest. There is a unique
noou we watch the gradual advance of the lace round his postman hat, and with opportunity of comparing the two services
11th and 10th Divisions as they sweep big gold tags on his collar-band. Ins and of watching the differences in their
round the Salt Lake, and, wheeling south-wondering if it is General Foch, whosa methods, moral, and general outlook en
wards, occupy the hill of Yilghin Burnu portrait, I have seen in the illustrated life.
And the Following car attracts my at- That night we are agam obliged to sleep : tention, And notice that beside the on board, as the lighters are not yet free chauffeur is a standard, the national to take us off. By the following morning colours of France. Here, surely, is in- we are a titils weary, and feel we oughtportance coming our way. One glance to bo on shore. At eleven o'clock unr at the occupants is caugh. The big chance comes, and we ship ashore, but not white noustachioed old general in the without a pang of regret at leaving such corner is unmistakable. He grond
hig comfortable quarters. We know they are asleep, his head sloping to the last we shall enjoy for a long time to shoulder. You could never mistake him. The old general Five hundred yards reparates us It is Jaffre himself. from A Beach, but what a change there nodding asleep, had done a day's work: I had rather is there!
Troops are being landed in and it was not yes hoon.
I saw him thus, toit-worn and snatching thousands and pushed up to the front, fresh strength for further labours, than The shore is strew with hundreds of boxes,
in all the tinselled glory of a marshalled containing biscuits, tinned meats, and a review, Atlas bearing his burden is munition, waiting to be carried up to the murely a greater and more memorable troops in the ring line. Every now and sight thar Atlas baring his head before again a lural mine explodes, and all that is the plaudits of the mob, even 'in a trium- found of one soldier is his twisted rifle. phul procession, The shells from the ships guns strick over head, and the enemy's shrapnel bursts an all sides, while ho frequently sends an 8-in, high explosive shell close to the beaches with the most deafening report, scatteringbe was here, rocks and earth and fragments of steel that he was netep, for he was at work all directions, The roar of rifles is in this morning at 3. cessant and unceasing.
Both the soldier and the sailor have been worked at times almost to a standstill in
this most arduous campaign. The soldier, in fighting and digging trenches, and the sailor, in covering the Army from the so in landing everything the soldier requires on shore, and in guarding the lines of communication against the enemy's sub marines. Of the two, the soldier's life is undoubtedly the most dangerous.
THE WORK OF THE TRAWLERS,
One must not overlook the work of the immense number of trawlers and drifters, which carry all the supplies to the troups on shore from the bases, which have been unde safe against submarine attack. The campaign would have been impossible without them. The lot of their crows in a hard one. They must go out in every kind of weather, and are often kept busy for 18 hours out of the 24. They have to go right into the braches, and are con stantly exposed to the enemy's shell-fire.:
WONDERFUL PICQUET RÖATS,
We then had to carry everything oni board through the lower decks, among long fines of hurses and kicking mules, until we found our way in the darkness to the promenade drek, After a long hunt below we found the paeser, who took us to his cabin and lit a candle, Then, just as if we were about to cross the Atlantic, The examined his cabin list, and, finding
two vocant, he assigned us to them. minute later we were comfortably installed in a first-class compartment, Beautifully clean, with linen, which none of us had spen for months, the hecks, The place was paradise of luxury. On shutting up the widows we were allowed a light, Nevins and I sat opposite one another, unable to speak from sheer satisfaction at aur surroundings.
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A little later in the day I met General at his headquarters, and told him I had seen Jaffre, nodding asleep in his car. You are quite righ'," he said, And I do not wonder
- À TOUR OF THE TRENCHES,
The following are passages from the description of a visit tax, and walk through, the trenches into the firing line
"MAY HAVE TO DO ASHORE EARLY.**.
Then there came a knock at the door, Some are offered by sub-lieutenants, but and a steward, in beautiful white ducks, am your bedroom the majority carry the skippers who handle entered, saying, "I them in the North Sea. in the Channel.steward, sir. "Is there anything I can get and off the West Coast. They are a rough, you i Well, as we had not dined, we hurdly lot und excellent seamen if left to suggested that a few sandwiches and de things in their own way. They are nedrinks would be very acceptable." AW Streams of wounded arrive from the respecters of persons, and their language right, sir, I will call the bur tender." firing line, those who are able to walk. towards their superiors, when ordered on moment later the latter turned up, and hobbling down to the benches, and others sume particular je they do not fanoy, or had a warm reception. We asked him being carried on stretchers. We welk when told de a partienlar thing in a he had a nice cool hettle of iced cham-
across the pit to Chocolate fill, where
We entered a communication trench. We way they do not fancy, would insure an pagne. "Certainly,” he replied; “ it has our friends, the artillery, have been land- walked in single file, in what might buye instant coart-martid før angene in the been on the fee since last February, and ed. The day is as a furnger, and now we been a deep cutting for an drain, üft: deep, Peguine service
I have not sold a bottle since." The major are only to get a cup of dirty water, and perhaps, and a couple of feet wide. The There are great grumblers, but the work having joined us, we sat down to an ek our raids will
to the revert
elay dug out of it had been thrown out is always done, and done efficiently. One cellent ment, after which the major, ac-lying so calmly in the bay, and to all the on top, and formed a rude parapet. And ald Devonshire skipper was heard to re-cording to his naructions, outlined the iced drinks so near and yet so far. That the drain was never straight for more mark, It's fucky King George has these new plan of campaign, and told us night we find a resting place on the north- than a few yards. It twisted and turned ere trawlers," as he swept the horizon were goig to land.
ern shore of the bay, on a little spit run-and twisted again, It was a clay maxe. for battleships and large transports, But this idea of a landing at dawn seem ning out into the sea, The heat is gone You saw nothing but clay walls, and a which was safely sheltering during due ofed too unnatural when sitting in
All is still.blue sky above, with sometime, a bird this and the firing has died down,
Now and again, we the periodical submarine seures. There is luxurious cabin on a great Atlantie liner, and the air is delightfully cool, We have passing overhead. a lot of truth in this. For it is this surrounded by hot and cold water, clean no tent and no shelter, except one we have would come on a wet patch, and wo just Wesloshed through. The mud held our boots bandy shailow-draught craft which have stewards, iced champagne, excellent cigars, improvised out of the thick scrub. and the supply of the Army possible in and plenty of perfect sandwiches. Nevin make a fire and cook some bully beef, and like a sucker. You grasped at the cluy And the past and on which the Army will have son, who is very conscientious, had decided borrow we water from some kind-heart walls and pulled yourself along.
we marched on, hut, perspiring panting, in rely in the winter, when the storms turn to sit up all night to watch events, but the ed sailors on a lighter
We marched in this dich interminable. the praceful Mediterranean into a wilder temptation to sleep between shoots was
for miles; and the twists and turns made ness of short chappy seas. Our Fleet has irresistible. Therefore, having had a hot.
it seem the longer. We marched till our in fact, entirely changed since the end of bath, we turned in and were soon sound Five hundred yards away Ee, the trans-legs ached, and our speech died out of us. May, We now control the warrow waters asleep, and personally I never had any atlantic Palace of Luxury. You can see Suddenly we came out upon Munk road. between the islands and the mainland by idea what time we sailed or arrived at the saloon lighted up. You realise it is a little boreen between two high banks of our destroyers and trawlers, which now Buvia Bay. I was wakened at 5.30 by the the dinner hour. None of us say a word, earth. It was the ante-chamber to the
over the Army.
deafening rear of innumerable big guns, but we are all thinking the same thought: second, or resting, trench, Here we came and, living collected my thoughts, realised"How pleasant it would be to just go on men resting after their four days wo must have arrived. Dressing hastily, hack and sleep in a comfortable bed and spell in the firing trench. One of the most arduous duties which I went on deck, which I found crowded have a nice hot dinner, and be waited on falls to the Navy is keeping up the serwith officers, peering out into the dark by clean stewards in white duck suits." vier of picquet baut. These steam pinness towards the land, which was just Probably everyone among the thousands naces are marvellous craft, At every becoming visible, bench in Gallipoli, and at all the islands, it is they who for the ultimate means of communication between the sea and the -bore They are the friend of every indi- craft. trawler, or vidual, and every lighter. in distress.
If you want to go lying about 1,500 yards from the shore. weary suffering way to the bearhes, wait, rifles are stacked in a wooden bracket anywhere you must take a picquet boat. in Suvla Bay, and as the light increased ing their turn to be conveyed to the hos
we had a splendid view of all that passed.pital ships outside the bay, which look The lighters, full of stores, o horses, or
mauition, are filled up from the traw. The life of the sea and the routine of years so clean and so comfortable, lit up by in lers, or small transports, and then you see when crossing the Atlantic went on just numerable coloured lights, which sparkle one of these picquet boats dash out from the same. The numerous stewards, instead | on the water. the pier, tie up alongside, and bring them of cagerly watching the operations, went in through rough seas or swirling tides, about their accustomed tasks. with a skill that is amazing to the lay served, and the chief stoward game on mind.
deck with the announcement: "Breakfast At one time there was a shortage of is usually at 8.30, but this morning it will these precious eraft, owing to the tremend. be at 6.30, as some of the gentlemen mayed philosophy. He understands nought nus amount of work required of them,have to go on shore early."
of the war, and cares still less. He has some being damaged, some sunk by the therefore, a bell rang, and we trooped his job and the carpet must be kept clean, coal più enemy's shell fire, others getting their down to the saloon,
The world's work must be carried on in in four days, for there are boilers worn out from over-heating, some
On our way, at the top of the gangway. spite of this world struggle, and there in wrecked ashore. Ent a large fresh supply we passed an ancient steward who was probably not one among the thousands who
burrow straight towards the enemy's reached the Navy from England some time busily engaged with a vacuum cleaner. are lying in the open, hungry, thirsty, and
lines, If they are successfully reached ngo, and now all the beaches are ade- Nothing could change the habits of a life weary, who would not willingly exchange
au explosion will blow them in, at th quately supplied. Some of these picquet time. For forty years he had cleaned car places with him.
Juns with them. It is perilous and ex hoats are in charge of midshipmer, and pets at this hour, and now, when the most
citing work. The enemy wing, too. And Then the victory is others under petty officers. The lot of momentous event in the history of the Em-
the mines may meet their crews is not to be envied, for they pite was taking place, he still cleaned car- work ander continuous shell fire. At pets, and will assuredly go on doing so at THE AGE LIMIT FOR GAMES. for those who first hear the foe working towards them, The others do not return. It is Anche, Helles, and Suvla Bay the enemy 0.30 every morning until he drops from old
It is difficult to answer a correspondent's Here, again, is a listening post. constantly she's the landing stages, and age or is claimed by a submarine, when he question (says Cam:sis in the Sunday
rubbit warren that leads from our own barbed wire, day and night these boats are exposed to will probably be found dinging to the Times) as to at what age it is wise for a trenches, under our shrapaol and common shell, But the cleaner, and, if saved, will repay his pre-
man to give up active sport. All depends and breaks like a rabbit-hole, concealed work never stops. There is a still more servers by cleaning their earpets in like
The war outside was no aflair upon the physical fitness of the man and with turf, into the surfas of No-Man's A soldier crawls into it, and. arduous time coming for the destroyers. manner.
with his ear at the rabbit hole. listens, trawlers, and picquet boats this autumn of this man, and, like all the other the nature of the sport. Army experts Land. and winter, when the gales come rolling stewards on board, he took not the smallest tell us a man is as old as his arteries, and, un from the south-west, but I fancy that interest in it. these hardly sailors from the North Sea and our genuen in the destroyers will take-
a ship through any sen, provided they gin lay her up alongside of something in order to discharge her eargo.
ON BOARD A LINEW,
THE CARPET CLEANED,
We turn a corner, and we are in the firing line, The parapets here are sup ported by sandbags. A firing platform on shore hus some such thought, and in is cut like a shelf on the right-hand side -
of the trench. A couple of men are either thinking of the ship he has left or of his home.
Thousands are searching standing ou it, with their rifles poked And they aro Our first landing parties were already for a drop of water, just to make the through the sandbags. ashore, and troops were being hastily dis-bully beef and hiscuits go dow». Thou- sniping at the enemy trenches nerds the
On one side of them four or five embarked from the transparts. We were
sands of wounded are wonding their way
fastened in the clay wall. Behind them is a dug-out, where four or five inen are housed. When an alarm sounds, by night or day, these men spring up, take their rifles, and step up to the firing platform. Then there is rapid fring all along the trench. The occasional pop-pop develops into a rattle that travels right along the front, and sweeps the field outside with a bail of lead.
BREAKFAST AS USUAL.
Tea was
At 6.30.
A vision arises before your eyes. It is that of the old steward with the vacuum cleaner, still at work dragging it slowly to and fro across the gaudy carpet at the top of the stairs. The old man has learn-
Here is a mino shaft you may look down into. It is sixty feet deep, and planked and timbered and storeyed like It has been sunk and stayed in this
trench; and most of them are expert miners. From the bottom a shaft will
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Mr. Henry Chaplin, M.P., is still to, and all Hell breaks loose.
what the communiqués mean when they half-a-dozen warships are blazing away for as keen and as clever a shot at over seventy
say that there were lively exchanges in all they are worth. Our infantry aro. crossing the spit in front of the Salt Lakes ever he was. Anether expert has told the setur from X to Z.
us that the secret of continued physical under a deadly hail of shrapnel, while power, apart from the ordinary laws of shipers keep up an incessang rifle fire, and health is wrver to stop. That is to say.
visit to Ypres, which is ..the abomination the endless procession of motor lighters, if an elderly man gives up sport for a described as with their crowded khaki freights, nover
time is that much to the bad when lo desolation." the writer proceeds :---
We were anxins la ser un Irish regi step going and returning to the thres
starts again. chosen beaches, A, B, and C. From A Or take games.
Dr. W. Gracement, and permission was accordingly Beach came a series of explosions, followed selled at enhet long after he was Gifts, granted to us to pay a visit to the by clouds of black smoke, Sommons re- Mr. Guy Nickalis helped England to win whom we found resting after the hat: berf
Hooge.
They were living in huts and. marks, "Those can't be shells; they must the premier trophy at the Olympic for the modern uniforms, ou might This is indeed the case, for Regatta when he had ostensibly joined the have thought it was a scene Sherwand I went on board her at Kephalos, Bar the enemy have laid uumerous land mines, veterans ranks, and Lord Hawke captain-Forest, with Roinn Hond and his fighting about nine o'iconk. The night was pitch and the first infantry who landed Urere fed the Yorkshire XI., at a stage when dark, and not a light was showing in any came in for a very hot time, Every now most men's stomach considerably inter
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