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Dardanelles again, with a large cruising party on which all the divisions once 'engaged in that memorable campaign were framo represented. Now the Turks are renowing their claim to the right to "militarise" the Straits Dip and switch-type hoad-which... - are- the gateway to lamps.
Constantinople and the Middle East. They appeal for release from the Treaty of Lausanne (July, 1923), by which the the entrance), the Bosphorus,. Straits (including the islands at and parts of Turkish Thrace · were to remain demilitarised and unfortifled, controlled under the League of Nations by a Com- mission representing the four Powers, together with Greece, Bulgaria, Rumania, Russia, and Jugoslavia.
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For myself the main interest of the position in my recent visit lay in the long, shallow trench some 50 yards down the slope,, from the summit of Hill Q, which adjoined Chuuk 'on 'our left front. In that shallow trench the 6th Gurkhas, under Major Cecil Allanson, lay during the night of August 8-9, and at dawn they climbed to the sum-
mit,
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With a wild dash they drove the Turks down the reverse slope; they saw the stream of the Stralts, with Chanak and Maidós at the Narrows; and they stood at the very point of victory when a salvo of big shells fell among them. Whence those shells came will always be disputed, but the action of the Gurkhas them- selves, intermingled with the Warwicks and 6th South Lanca- ahires, has been explained to me by a letter from Major (or
In return, the League guaran- est number of our men had Colonel) Allanson himself, and teed the integrity and defence of fallen. At the terrible landing which he gives me leave to use Turkey. Now the Turkish beaches V, W, Y and Gully as I please. Foreign Secretary, Towfik Rush- Ravine; at Lone Pine, the Farm,
NOTES OF THE DAY di Bey, questions-the value of the Nek and other points in
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"The point I really wanted, to bring to your attention," he writes, "is my great doubt whother those unfortunate shells that so complete- ly scattered us momentarily had really any decisive effect on the battle. Adnrittedly, it caused the immediate evacuation of the summit of the ridge, but the small reserve left in the trenches just below acted as the necessary 'catch' for the troops falling back. Unassisted and unsupported as we should almost Immediately have discovered our selves to be, I doubt if I should over have tried to dig in in the open on the summit, and it la probable that our little scrapes of the night before we should have dropped back into
nnd waited for reinforcements so as to enable us to occupy the ridge with a far longer line than we could have seized alone. So, shells or no sholts, the immediate result would probably have been the same.
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"By 7 nm, the battalion again a cohesive unit with but one wounded British officer (myxolf) with it; twice during the next two hours patrols went back to the sun- went. The ridge and its neighbour- mit, with one of which I personally
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were completely deserted, everything around was still. I ap preciated then that a golden and heaven-sent opportunity was slip- ping from our grasp, and I got a message through to that effect to Brigade Headquarters.
The knowledgment, timed 0.46 a.m., Asid: Hold on if you possibly.can; a further advance an Ifill Q is going to be made; keep na close under ridge as you can, IXth Army Corps is co-operating on extreme left, and it is possible developments may be entirdy In our favour, n little later on,"
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that guarantee. The Turks Anzac; at Green Hill, half-way claim the restoration of their between Chocolate and Scimitar own military power at least on Hills at Suvin, one saw those the Straits, and military power mournful cemeteries, with low According to yesterday's cable will almost certainly involve headstones ranged like troops in advlees from Europe, Great Britain fortification. is about to offer to lift sanctions
ranks, a memorial column, and FRIDAY, APR. 17, 1936.
against Italy if Italy, in turn, will
the round clumps of rosemary immediately put an end to the
Free navigation of the Straits growing for remembrance. fighting in Ethiopia. Our first re-
has been a crucial question in BRITISH DEFENCE
Just beyond the Salt Lake, at action was a feeling of relief, And European diplomacy and war for Suvla, 1 easily found the front It is n sad and somewhat remedy for
yet, on closer analysis, such a more than a century. Looking trench on Chocolate Hill where the Italo-Ethiopian at the great heaps of round stone a fragment of shell cut a fine startling reflection on human complication seems hardly adequate. balls which the old Turkish guns Turkish crescent on the top of nature and human relationships Italy may be quite prepared to end
Let us point out, first, that although used to hurl at our ships trying my head but failed to penetrate to force the Straits past the un- the brain, because, as I told the that the most peace-loving hostilities in Ethiopia in reluan cient fortress of Sedd-el-Bahr at surgeon later in the day, my people in the world should now Nations' sanctions, the Ethiopians what the conflict had been reason.
a fting of the League of the mouth, one could realise skull was impervious to all but be compelled to devote time and themselves may have somewhat
different views. attention to the problems raised Emperor Haile Selassie's boast that huge modern guns lying smash upon Scimitar Hill has been so It has long been Stronger evidences still are the But, the broad gravel blaze by the possibility of war on a Ethiopia would never surrender as
ed and dismantled in the big grown over by prickly bushes great scale. For among the long as the invaders were upon
forts beside the Helles Light- that the shape which gave the many peoples that go to the her soil and as long as her army
house as the result of Admiral hill its name is now obscured, making of the British common-League
survived. How, then, is the Carden's naval bombardment on and only those who were present
of Nations, or wealth of nations it is safe to Britain, or Italy, going to guaran
Great February 25, 1915.
at the fighting will realise the say that no single class or pro-tec pence in East Africa as long sula from the toe at Helles up to vital position.
But, indeed the whole penin- tragic mistake which lost us that fession-one is almost tempted Ethiopia is not placated? Un the rocky edge of Karakol Dagh
On the fatal Sunday (August 10 say no single individual-offer Italy something in the way the League is prepared to
heyond Suvla Bay is strewn with 8) when inertia prevalled at desires war on any scale what of compensation for a retirement relies of our noble and vain en- Suyla during the great attack from Ethiopia and such an offer deavour to open the Straits by from Anzac which the Suvla Yet the possibility must
and such an acceptance on Italy's land and sen.” be faced and preparations made
divisions were expected to sup- part are equally unthinkable accordingly. Since the Great there seems ne chance of a settle-
port, Scimitar Hill was occupied Looking down on the deserted without opposition by the 6th War, Britain has shown an ment. The League, of course. ruins of the village of Krithin, East York Pioneers; but they example to the world by keeping sation to Ethiopia; and there would might offer some form of compen
or over the spoon-shaped plain were withdrawn owing to a mis- her armed forces at a low level, be more prospect of a compromise
once so deeply scarred by our take in orders, and the attempts That example, however, has not in this direction. Of one thing
own and Turkish trenches, our to recapture the position cul- -been-followed. Taking risks formuin submitted now must be last nineteen years Nature had three brigades of the famous Suvla did not co-operate, but we can be sure that any peacerty could see that during the minated in the gallant attack by The-Ninth Army Corps-at- for peace has not removed the bigger and broader than that been at her kindly work. Whore 20th Division on August 21. It Major Allanson writes further dangers of war. On the con-offered by M. Pierre Laval and once the armies had made a was the most terrible scene of that his Gurkhas clung to their trary, conditions in the inter-Sir Samuel Hoare some months desert of parching sand, all now warfare I ever witnessed, for the precarious position till the early national field have deteriorated., and we recall with misgiving was green. The trenches were dry bush took fire, and the morning of the 10th, when a ter- the outery which greeted that crumbling away, and on their wounded were burnt or killed as rible counter-attack, came over The Government has therefore particular attempt at diplomacy. edges grew thyme and other they tried to crawl out. All was the ridge, just missing them, but been compelled to make an ex-Italy, whose armies are closing in aromatic plants, such as rose- in vain.
falling, as we know, on the haustive study of the present upon Addis Ababa, is in no mood to
mary, "for accept a bit
'remembrance," of cookle when she planted in thick, round clumps
Mustapha Kemal Pasha, now troops below and to their right. position, and its conclusions has her hands on the whole cake, within the low walls of all the The Ghazi," was by that time He was then ordered to with- were recently published in And she knows the diiculties in
in command, and the attempt to draw, and he highly praises the another official document, which the way of any movement to in- cemeteries.
recapture a position that way Gurkha officer who conducted the is a natural sequel to the White against her. She is in no hurry upon the places where the great- 6,500 casualties.
the weight of sanctions
These are beautifully laid out ours a fortnight before cost us withdrawal. He concludes: Paper of a year ago. It is a to negotiate peace, and she has let deplorable fact that the level of the League of Nations know that national armaments has been the subject of conciliation. For she has no suggestions to make on rising all over the world. Ger- complete victory seems now man rearmament has proceeded sight. If, as yesterday's messages at a steady but rapid rate lead us to believe, Britain is re- conciled to an ultimate surrender throughout the past year. There Ethiopis to the Roman con- is a great deal of secrecy about queror, the Lengue's struggle to the details, but conscription has prevent aggression in this instance been reintroduced for the Army, at an end; and a blow to the and Germany has certainly a ministered which will
League's prestige has been ad- shake ita most formidable Air Force. In very foundations. The League France and Belgium expendi. Covenant and all the high-sounding ture on the Army has increased, to have a meaning. But we can- idealism therein will have ceased and frontier defences have been not believe that British people are rapidly strengthened. For the reconciled to any such surrender, past six months the Italian or that they are willing to accept International brigandage as modern Army has been on a war footing, political expediency, Six months ago there were 1,200,000 men under arms and
creuse
in
the Italian Air Force is being security, have already been an- nounced. The problem of or- rapidly re-equipped and en- larged. The forces of Soviet ganising Industry to meet the Russia have been increased to a greater claims that will be made total of 1,800,000 men, and the upon it has been studied, and Soviet Air Force is also being and men is, being enlisted. In the co-operation of both owners increased: Japan has a
com this matter there are a number prehensive and formidable
of difficulties to be overcome, programme of re-armament; but they will certainly be dis- and a similar story can be told posed of satisfactorily in the of the United States of America. course of time. Thus, although As the British Government's on but modest scale for the disarmament example was not British people still hope that the followed, it was compelled to threatened cataclysm of war prepare a plan of re-armament will be avoided-steps are to be in order to make its counsels of taken to bring the defence forces up-to-date, enabling weight in international British statesmen to speak with affairs. Details of this plan, authority and power in the aimed at Empire and national counsels of the nations.
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SIDE GLANCES,
By George Clark
"I was just trying out my new car. Could you tell: ma how fast I was going?"
"It was the netion taken by the Turks during those precious 20 hours, and not the shelfs, that scal ed the issue of the baille. They were successful in doing what we failed to do, that is, to concentratu the necessary troops during the night and previous day, to minke powerful attack, and secure for themselves the most vital point on the whole peninsula."
I wish I could quote in full Colonel Allanson's letter giving an account of his Gurkhas, who held the left of the Anzacs again in the attack upon Hill 60 during the fighting from August 19 to. 23. But perhaps I may give the [story of that gallant Gurkha officer who had conducted the withdrawal down the steep of Hill Q:
"His orderly came to tell me he was down and that he was calling for me. 1 crept to him. He was nearly serrseless, and said: 'Sahib, what will you do without ma! What will the regiment do? I do not mind death; what is that? But you want me, and the regiment wants me, and I cannot be spared." ile clung to my hand, and the tears, poured from his eyes."
Such are some of the memories that haunt the Gallipoll Penin- sula. Our attempt to open the Straits cost us 28,200 killed. 78,095 wounded, 11,254 missing making a total of 117,549, British and Anzac men, not in- cluding the French who were with us. At the end of the war we secured the long-desired ob ject of opening the Straits to free navigation for all nations. The Turks now demand that they should be closed again, and that all our efforts and losses should go for nothing.