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HILL BY HILL IN GALLIPOLI. WEARING DOWN THE TURKS. TRIUMPH OF MILITARY ORGANIZATION.
FRENCH GALLANTRY. "
REVIEWS.
What I Saw in Berlin and other Europeau Capitals during War - time. Byr "PLERMARINI,' London: Eveleigh Nogh.
The daring Italian journalist who has
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We know from prisoners that the enemy was largely reinforced from Adrianople and from Asia Minor, and all are unsai- mous in saying that the Turkish losses wore enormous in these futile efforts to carry out General Liman's orders to drive as into the sea at the point of the bayonet. But although it was not the policy of the The marvellous precision with which Allied commanders to sit still und allow been relating to the readers of a London the Ficel and the Army are combining to their lines to be attacked, they were quite evening newspaper his experiences ill &
Turkish prison-the result of a zeeure où footing in Gallipoli coutent to ace the enemy break himself in visit to Constumtinople a month or so ago.
sala is graphically described in the waves of dead and wounded against our has collected a series of newspaper dispatch of The Times below from a ontrenched positions while they were pre-
articles written since the outbreak of Special Correspondent who has been paring for the great counter-stroke, the hostilities and published them in bok authorized to follow the operations. I first stage of which has just been ended.
form. They form interesting reading at The whole of the responsibility for land the present moment, since they give an his opinion, only the highest efficiency. and the closest co-operation of the porting troops and koping up the supplies of impartial description of most of the E of the naval and military forces can food and ammunition is in the hands of pear. countries under the stress of wate
In addition, the responsibi- and enable us to realise how far the w enable the Allies to overcome the formid- the Navy.
has affected the life of the common people able obstacles which still confront them. lity of protecting the flanks of the com-
MUDROS, May 16th. bined Armics and of keeping down the in the chief towns of our encantes. The
writer was in Berlin, for instance, i The first stage of the great battle for enemy's artillery fire lies with the war-
October and again in December, and the possession of the heights of Achi Baba chips. All troops, animals, guns, has come to a close. Although the British wagons, stores, ammunition, and a thou though he found changes he surprises us Army is not yet in possession of this sand other things have to be taken from that the changes were not more marked. commanding position, the energy has been the hundred transports lying off the Anyone who wishes to get a vid impress These transports arrive full sion of the condition of Europe during forced to disclose his strength and the Straite character of his defences, and the Allies and leave empty for a fresh cargo at all the fral six months of the greatest war METEOROLOGICAL are now in a position to estimate the full hours of the day and night. All supplies in history should read this description of
"Piermarini's' peregrinations, aro conveyed in trawlers or lighters to measure of the task which lies ahead.
Achi Baba is the first of the command- two narrow benches, neither of which is ing positions on which the Turco-Garian more than 200 yards in width. The cliffs force can take its stand, before we are prohibit the landing of anything at any able to move up trs Gallipoli-Peninsula other point.. and thus command the northern shora of The Narrows. There are others, at least as formidable, behind it. All these posi tions must be taken, hill by hill, valley by valley, and trench by trench, before the my cin upon the sale to the Float and enable it to pass through to Constan- tinople.. When once our Fleet is past The Narrows, the end has come.
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in two weeks of continuous fighting the Anglo-French Armies have accomplished marvels; considering their strength Decisive victories can no more he gained in a day in the Gallipoli Peninsula
then they can be elsewhere.
BRAVE AND TENACIOUS FOE.
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EFFICIENT NAVAL WORK.
Work never stops.
Arms! Novel. By.W. H. WILLIAM- SON. London: T. Werner Laurio Limited.
The story in this case does not matter. Mr. Williamson, by clever craftsmanship, contrives to give us a striking contrast in methods of warfare. His account of the Little town of Dinant is all the more sack, and destruction of the picturesque
memory of a delightful holiday spent aff interesting to ourselves because of the Dinant whew all was pence and the world was full of joy. What he has to tell of have heard from the lips of a Dinant
manufacturer, & man who had soon bell and whose blood boiled us he told of the raps of innocent women and the wanton t sacre of old and young, men and woracu boys and girls, sick, wounded and infirm. It is a relief to turn to the description of the fighting in French's gallant little
We are fighting a brave and tenacious enemy, who is skilfully led, and who has always proved himself a most formidable The enemy when driven into a corner, men our troops are fighting to day dro of the same stamp as those who held Plevna under Osman. They are fighting for their existence as a factor in Europe. Just as marked as when facing the enemy" made to feel that at any rate, wo should
Our Naval Commanders, Lieutenants, and Midshipmen in charge of this work have developed an efficiency which has completely upset all expert theories Piers have been built out file deep water by our suppers, so that the largest lightors Roads have been cut can ecmo alongside. Those who have studied the campaign along the diffs to inarcase the area of in France and Poland will realize that disembarcation, and a hundred labour German brutality coincides with what we enving devices have been extemporized, in ching a system of lighting which allows the work to go or without interruption by night and by day. Even when the day's work is ever and the Last lighter has discharged her cargo, the wounded are walking or being carried down to the beaches, where they are em barked on the empty barges and dispatch-army in the famous retreat from Mond ed for transportation to Egypt, to the and the subsequent advance to the Aisne Mr. Williamson succeeds marvellously hospital ships, and transports.
The men of the Navy keep watches on well in epitomising the history of those shore just as they do at sea, and their heroic days, and humanizing what, aftar all, is a lamentably inhuman method of devotion to duty and their keenness are
Bottling international disputes. We are and for the retention of the City which batteries in the Dardanelles.
The line of demarcation between the bo proud that we belong to the same rac is the pride and delight of every Tork.
as the soldiers who have fought for the They are not going to give in and let us authority of the Army and of the Navy.
cause of right against misapplied might, As long as a soldier,
and to steel ourselves to endure hardships through to The Narrows, so we have to is strictly drawn, fight our way yard by yard, and the wara horse, a gun, or a biscuit is in a ship or and personal losses if only the bestial here has become, as in France, a question in a lighter, on its way to the shore, all brutality of the German soldiery is of how many men we can afford in order are under the control of our beach parties. properly punished and the wrongs of to capture each trench and each mile of Standing on one of the piers in the swel-Belgium, France and Poland avenged. ground. Victory can only be gainedering heat of the last few days, with the here, as in France, by more mea and obens behind hins crammed with men,
stores, and animals, a young officer, with The German. Lieutenant, continuous supply of ammunition.
megaphone in his hand, shouts orders to a dozen different lighters, each towed Onc contains mules, another guns, a third by a steam pinuace, in the offing: biscuits, a fourth tinned meat, a fifth ammunition, a sixth troops, & seventh Generals and Staff officers. Every one is directed to its right destination as if by some enchanter's wand, and no one dares to step ashore until be has recived his orders.
At the end of the pier the naval authority ceases and that of the Army be gins.
Here are Army Service Corps.offi. cere, who are waiting to seize what the The thousand Navy has brought then. miscellaneous articles, which look as they never could be sorted out, are speed
divided, checked, and sent on their way down the lines of communication to the troops in the front trenchoz. The whole is a marvel of organization.
Our gallant troops and those of our Allies have made enormous sacrifices to from home who are to follow up the sus prepare tho. way for the reinforcements cesses which this band of heroes, so many of whem lió beaeath the soil, have achieved. No fores the Turks can bring against us will move our men from the Tines which they have won by sheer hard fighting. But apparently the Turk, who in modern times has never loved offensive tactics, has grasped this fact, and now hopes that we shall hurl ourselves againat his entrenchments and redoubts.
That both the Turks and the Gertoons have received a staggering blow we know, for they were convinced that the Gallipoli Peninsula was impregnable and that 1 BAROMETRD, reduced to as degrees Fahrertes enemy could possibly land on any of the Order of the min-incho, tenth antracies. The enemy had every right to
suppose that bis defences would prove in
The more the paai- pervious to attack. tions are examined, the more apparent is the extraordinary feat of army performed by the 993 Division, the Naval Divisions, and the landing parties from the ships on that never-to-be-forgotten morning of April 25th. Each bosch was a fortress in
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'THE JEWEL OF ASIA," Let it not be supposed that the work is Far carried out in peace and quiet. from it. The Turks on the Aaistic shore shell the bench almost every day, and our warships are continually engaged in try-
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ASTRIDE THE PENINSULA.
The superlative merit of the achieve meat lies in the fact that the same men who went through the dreadful ordeal of ft. In April 5th maintained their position with out receiving any reinforcements for several days, in the face of most deter mined counterattacks, and actually ad vanced their linea until they were firmly established astride of the Peninsula, face The Turks ing the heights of Achi Baba. fought with extreme bravery, and made tho mest determined efforts to drive us into the sea, not only on the night of the Lauding, but also in a sustained effort
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The shriek at its arrival and the explosion are followed by a cloud of sand, out of which emerge figures of men and animals who should have been killed or injured, but who very seldom aro
On the beach the sight of the Ship of Troy, or River Clyde, seems to excite the enemy's peculiar indignation, and they fire round after round at her, while the work of disembarcation proceeds. Some times the enemy's aircraft sweep down? and attempt to drop their bombs on our ships or on the crowded beacher, but these missiles from the sky only excite derision The most successful shot from the Asiatic coast blew up a gun caisson, killing seven horses and one maa. At night this southern end of the Gallipoli Peninsula, which was formerly so deserted and bar ren, has the appearance of being one of The mass of the world's greatest ports. fights ashore look as if several towns had suddenly sprung up, while out to sea & hundred great transports and numerous
ond ottier Stories. By AUGUST STRINDBERG. London: T. Werner Laurie, Ltd. •. August Strindborg, the dramatist and novelist, was a leader of modora Swedish
that He has been called literature,
He was subject Shakepere of S reden." to periodical fits of insanity, and died three years ago when near three score years and ten. It will thus be seen that these tales have nothing to do with the present war, the German Lieutenant " of the first of the seven stories being s relic of the Franco-Prussian conflict of 1870-1871. Throughout the whole of the series there is a taint of insanity, a morbidity which is net altogether whole- some, the sadness and sordidness that some of us are inclined to associate with Scandinavian literature AS TO whole. Nevertheless, Strindberg displays in thead character and the underlying forces that short tales a deep insight into human mould our life and character in spite of ourselves. Just how far freewill is a reality it is difficult for any of us to say, that is the suggestion these stories leave upon our minds...
THE CHANCELLOR'S “STOCKING.”
RECORD DEPOSITS IN POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANK.
If the savings of the nation have increased, there is a fund available for the relief of existing securities or to invest in any national loan.
This statement, of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in bis Budget speech has riveted attention on the position of the Post Office Savings Bank in time of war. Has the com munity been mos thrifty, notwithstanding the increased cost of living, and have the deposits in the Rank increased in proportion to the enhanced earning power of the popula
tion
which
Satisfactory answers to these gucations Lloyd George is faced in financing might go for to soles the great problem with the war, and it was in order to obtain somo index of the real position as affecting the Gnancial position of the messes that a Press. representative sought out the Contrailer of the Post Office Savings Bank, Mr. Heary Davies, CB, 19.0,
ou the night of Wednesday, April 28th, warships lie nacked outside the forbidding way is caning in in quite a record
and still defiant Straits,
They pressed forward on our thinly held liaca in close order forcations, after the wat manner of the Gormans, hoping by sheer
"The excess of de- 'said Mr. Davies. posits over withdrawals since the beginning of this year is greater than the excess has been on any previons period in the history of the Post Office Savings Bank. There in no doubt that people are depositing well, and there is such a lot of money in the country
AL
weight of numbers to smash their way Officials at the Admiralty bear a great through the weakened khaki Vino. But deal that does not find its way to the they were everywhere repulsed, and long outside world. A delightful story is that there is room to deposit still more.. lines of their dead tying in perfectly mili-going around there anent the way in You can deposit in the Savings Bank at tary formation in frous of our trenches, which the news of the Heligoland Bight more than 15,000 different Post Offices. mark the high-water mark of their on fight first reached headquarters at White-though the public is using the Post Office slaught.
hall It appears that wireless telegraphy Savings Bank to a very large extent, the 150 it still more, Since that night their efforts against played a naturally important part in this Chancellor wishes them to our live have been only spasmodic. Their brilliant little engagement, and a number and to urge that those who are not depositors. main efforts have been directed against of the messages which few from ship to should become depositors.
"The more people save now, the stronger the French, who, after their landing at ship whilst the messages were in progress Kum Kale, were taken from the Asiatic wero picked up by the wireless operators they will make the financial situation of the shore and placed on the right of our line.at headquarters. Most of them consisted nation, and they will make their own indivi On the night of April 23th they attacked of "odds and ends of messages-little dual position stronger against the lean times which must set in after the war. We are One of the the French in dense mishes, which melted bits of eager exhortation,
Bear ex
their country at present, and themselves away under the rapid fire of the Lebels, sentences thus intercepted ran,
and were finally routed in a fierce and round sharp to starboard and you will hong fat years now, but people can and putting it into a place of safety-the well directed counter-attack at the point catch them. This and similar items later, by putting aside all they can spare, On the fellowing Satur pieced together with other orders that Post Ofice Savings Bank. It is impossible
of the bayonet. day the Turks again pressed forward agains: this part of the line, which was the scene of desperate fighting. At one tine portion of the French renches actually passed into their hands. But the 246-8-2 situation was saved and the ground was
regained...
came through, seem to have been the first intimation to the British Admiralty that
at the moment to say, where the money is
the "real thing was going on. We can corning from, as there bas been no time to easily imagine the excitement which must apply an analysis to the deposits. The with these isolated facts before the defiit very satisfactorily, and we get many testi- have prevailed amongst those acquainted Home Bank system, however, is going ou official intimation of the engagement monies as to its assistance to people in
enabling them to save.""
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