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A British Crossword Puzzle

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3 Prank of the boss's daughter?

(8)

Shells and bullets pumped into them as thoy struggled against tho surf and wire.

But at last, after 48 hours and at a terrible cost, the land- ings were complete. The last mote Turkish-held hill tell an Colonel armed only

8 Over a foot space for luggage

(4)

SQLSOUed

soldier, lun and Now Zealand troops imaginative,

Sir William Birdwood under

His desperave

Menwhile,

оть

tip,

four he the fierce drive were landing in the darkness beaches round the Peninsula's Doughty-Wylle,

ad on the west

Commonwealth with const: Bayonets southern f fixed, they charged across the and French troops were lancl- man forward.

sonde, scaled the cliffs, and ing in the hope of converging mashed into the first Turkish on the hill of Achi Baba, four Unes. Soon, against light' op- miles Inland. position and with surprisingly few casualties, they had search their foothold.

The British Government was committed. The

preparation. butan. From the Arst, they full sadily short of the laltini bril- thue of the plan.

Bungled

There was no secrecy,

The dawn light showed thei

Their boals had landed why

them

Disaster

was

a canc urged his thred

Ke

shot dead a few yards from the Turkish lines,

For more than eight months, Talced by fire and ravaged by sickness, thhe troops clung to tho tenuous foothold they had They nover Teached 1. scratched in the Gallipoli rock.

conspicuous. Leadership, regrettably.

Flat in wut

the burning Sun, with little water to slake their parched throats, the stench of On two beaches there were corpges in the

ar, und files disastrous delays. At one, as settling over Every amp of

astora from food... Jumped lighters, shells and bullots as they pumped into them

the Gallantry to the north of

Rugged One scheduled spot.

hilly

of the General's staff received and cky gullies, not broad not, an official letter from London, plains, loomed before them. sent through the ordinary post and addressed to the "Conslan. tinople Field Force,"

When the 29th Division dis-

embarked at Alexandria, it wan

found

that it had been

-

Although miserably equipped, quipped for mobile war in and reduced to using sandbags country with bad roads. It was to rate their rugged uniformis, short of guns, mununition, sur they were loyal and fereely gical and trench stores, brave..

Transport ships. had been Helped by German engineers, loaded in much a way that the

entrenched! they

themselves troops could not disconbark in landings, tlo blunders had cleverly

That of six fighting order

meant on a serles ridges. Their reinforced dug three weeks' delay. On February 19 und 25, the ouls were well sited, and pront Fleet had moved in to bombard against shells from the sea It was no longer much of a lo anyone when the the ancient forts of the narrow Vielous barbed wire protected airprise Dardanelles Peninsula, Xerxes onec built

Stick it out

Steadily, the Anzacs fought their wuy inland. Success seemed near. But then, fate- fully, the fleeing Turks ran into reserve troops led by young offeer, Mustapha Kemal Bey (later to become the father of modern Turkey), He flung

men

struggled against the surf and wire. Hundreds died in the at the water's shoals, and

9 Began to flourish (8)

11 Teiling Uncle, perhaps? (8) 13 with which duels were fought

(4).

15 Unenthusiastic saint to start

with (8)

18 Storing of fodder (8)

18 As much as a fowl can pick

up? (4)

21 The excuse certain

delight (B)

25 Imperial brandy? (8)

Then, in the November bliz-20 Heavenly circle (4) zarda, to die by the Fundred of 27 Scaremonger (8) exposure or frostbite.

At last, as 1915 closed, Goll- poll was recognised for the fai- Jure it was, "The most vast On a third beach, the landing disaster that had happened in

was too weak. On ព party

тел 2,000

stepped

the course of the wur," Sir Edward Chrson, Inter First Lord them back into the battle. ashore without a shot fired, a of the Admiralty, called it in

It unmolested,

fourth,

zitayed there

By nightfall, the Anzacs completo confusion, until they

were withdrawn eleven hours later,

had retreated almost into the дед "You have got through Hamilton wired. the worst,"

Throughout, high - explosive "Dig in aml stick it out."

sholls for supporting naved gumo Dig In. They were faleful were in tragically short supply, the beaches, fls cuts running 150-strong armada sulled from

the Thore was no silencing the cross sand and rocks into i Lemnos for Gallipoil in the words. They meant that

surprise had not been sur- Turkish fusillade. curly hours of Apr 25.

where

his bridge

and Alexunder avssed'; where brea

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the House of Commons.

In all, over 40,000 British Commonwealth and French soldiers were killed and more than 200,000 wounded, missing, taken prisoner

evacuated than half of those sick-more who had leaped out on to the treacherous sands of Gallipoli.

Dr

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1 Signature that's a handicap

(4)

2 To some it's really hard work

(4)

4 Kaffir military band (4)

5 Chocolate - coloured enter-

tainer? (4).

# Driving at some speed (2,:3)

* Sweet nonsense (5)

9 We find school (5)

10 Makes leonine noises (5)

12 Ooze (5)

to give 14 Large composerl' (5)

10 Fishi acutely, perhaps? (5)

17 Chap about 49 in Italy (5)

19 Fa at the zoo (8)

20 Police-painter produel (5)

21 Prize fruit (4)

22 The vast ages of neon signa

(4)

23 State (4)

-24 Scholastic echo of a musical

sound (4).

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