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日叁拾月陸年九廿百九仟兗英

STORY OF THE GALLIPOLI LANDING.

'STRONG WITH THE STRENGTH OF THE RACE TO OBEY."

HEROES WHO KEPT A RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH.

WANT OF SHELLS AND VACILLATION OF WAR COUNCIL.

The first instalment of the epic of Hamilton's attention more armly Gallipoli-a narrative of the soul-upon the gleaming minarets. of stirring and unforgettable military Constantinople than on the rugged achievement of British and Allied heights of Gallipoli.' troops on classic ground and in the classic way-ia now available.

It is the official story (based on official documents by direction of the Historical Section, Committee

As the heavily-laden men left the River Clyde and other transports. in small craft, to make for the shore, they were lashed and scourg A week later Sir Ian Hamiltoned by a hurricane of lead. Unable was disillusioned. He had taken to make reply, men fell wounded his first look at the Egean coast-line into the water, and, weighted with of the Peninsula from Cape Helles. their packs and ammunition, were The rugged and inhospitable scene drowned. The waters of Helles be of Imperial Defence) of Britain's which pafolded itself, with its came red with the blood of the slain. The survivors, with deter efforts to force the Dardanelles, tangled maze of hill and ravine. and is published by W. Heinemann. dictated his writing to Lord Kit.mination, constaney in calamity and passionate patriotism waded Brigadier-General C. F. Aspinall-chener: "Here Gallipoli looks a Oglander, who has prepared it, much tougher but to crack than it through the water and, after hours of fierce fighting, clung to the edge provides for the general reader, did over the map in your office,”

of the Peninsula. writes a military correspondent of the Morning Post, something in the nature of a thrilling romance, and for the military student a realistic picture of the great adventure from which he may glean much that will he valuable and instructive in re- Intion to a maritime invasion:

Rendezvous with Death, Brigadier-General Aspinall Og lander observes that although this new and difficult military enter- prise had been decided upon, no estimate of the probable scope and duration of the operations had been drawn up for discussion by the War Strategic Importance. Council. For everyone in authority The redeeming feature of the home this new undertaking was campaign was, of course, the superb an unmeasured leap in the dark." The task in front of the troops fighting qualities displayed by the troops. The vacillation of the Gov-on April 24, 1913, was one that no ernment during its conception the other Army had been called upon and they were facing it atmosphere of vagueness and want to face. of precision in the War Council;ns & long expected holiday." the absence of vital information sang and cheered their way to that and Staff preparation which de- rendezvous with death. stroyed one of the greatest weapera With the issue shrouded in un- of war-surprise-by sanctioning a certainty one fact alone was clear bombardment of the outer forts If the capture of the beaches was weeks before the troops landed humanly possible those gallant these are some of the more serious troops would do it. All the anzic indictments azainst those

inties of preparation were ended; all authority.

the variously interpreted decisions

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Force Too Weak,

It did not take long to realise the disconcerting fact that the force was too weak for the undertaking. General Sir. Aylmer Hanter Weston, who commanded the "In- comparables"-abriously, reminded of another desperate and unforget table chapter, in the history of British arms-gave the order:

Every man die at his post rather than retire."

Night aucceeded day, and day succeeded night and still no rest for the exhausted troops who had to advance against unshaken (because hidden) machine guns. Some drop- ped from sheer inability to proceed and snatched a little sleep with an entourage of their comrades who were sleeping, their last sleep.

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At Gallipoli, as at Aubers Ridge, lives were sacrificed for want of The Dardaneller had been famous of the War Council and the en-unitions; Sir Ian Hamilton has throughout the

for ages their deavour of soldiers and statesmen admitted that lives were used in- strategic importance. Should the to forecast the ratiocinative pro- stead of shells. Dardancies fall," wrote Admiral cesses of the mind of the Turks deplorable and even critical posi-

The author observas that "the HONG KONG HANSARD RE The hour for von "Tirpitz, on August S, 1915, the were forgotten.

tion of the Mediterranean Expedi- of the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL day after the British landed at heroic action had struck."

tionary Force, must be ascribed for the Session 1928. Suvla, the World War has been

Successfully to have met the con- partly the two months warning

RAVISED BY MEMBERS. decided against us."

ditions found at Gallipoli after the given to the Turks by the opening enemy had had five weeks' warning of the naval bombardment and part- of hostilities would have required ly to the fact that, after the aban-

for donment of the naval attack is March, the strength of the military force was not readjusted to meet the steadily mounting numbers and preparations of the enemy."

In 1911, the British General Staff had confirmed the previously held view that owing to the impossibility a commander renowned for thauma of effecting a surprise, an attempt | turgy: to disembark an enemy OIL: the Gallipoli Peninsula would be too hazardous to be recommended.

As the result of unsuccessful naval attacks and subsequent opers tions the main objective as defined in the decision of the War Council of attempting to force the Dar- danelles and to reach Constan- tinople, failed

How Landing was Effected.

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The 29th Division is immortal. Its tenacity and pugnacious valour won for it ao fewer than Victoria Crosses at Gallipoll, six of these being gained by the 1st Lancashire Fusiliers.

"Up to February 23," states the Turkish official account, it would have been possible to effect a land- ing successfully at any part of the Peninsula, and the capture of the Straits by land troops would have

en comparatively easy." But the Battalion two months' delay between the The personnel of the Division pass operations of the Fleet and the ed away and was renewed three landing of the Army transformed times. The total casualties aufer- Where a demolition party of 30a "comparatively easy operationed was 34,000. men had moved about unmolested into a task of superlative diffi- ou February 20, the 20th Division culty," Sir Ian Hamilton, Enver two months later (owing to warning Pasha said, “bad been set to thread given the Turks), losg 3,000 men be a needle with his toes." fore nightfall.

Sir Ian Hamilton.

Strong with the strength of the race to command, to obey, to endure,

Each of us fought as if hope for the garrison hung but on him,

Still-could we watch at ali points? We were every day fewer and fewer.

The landing of the 29th Division When, on March 12, 1915, Sir Ianat five southern points, and of the Hamilton had been appointed to Australian and New Zealand troops command the Allied. troops in the at a point nearer the Bulair lines, Mediterranean, Lord Kitchener still clung to the belief that the Army's help, except for minor en- terprises, would not be needed un til the Turkish capital was reached. "The whole tenour of his instructory and riot find anything commemorial to the Division's incciun- tions was such as to rivet Sir fas parable with it.

while the French troopa, made a ** demonstration" at Kum Kale, on the Asiatic shore, was a des- perate and heroic affair. One might search the annals of military, his-

Tennyson's lines commemorating the Defence of Lucknow apply equally to the achievements of the famous 29th Division on that aar- row tongue of land which bears

parable heroism.

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