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BRITISH DEFENCE

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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 unfortified, controlled under the League of Nations by a Com- mission representing the four Powers, together with Greece, Bulgaria, Rumanía, Russia, and Jugoslavia.

The DARDANELLES?

The Bosphorus.

Our

For myself the main intercat of the position in my recent visit lay in the long, ahallow trench some 50 yards down the slope from the summit of Hill Q, which adjoined Chuuk on left front. In that shallow trench the 6th Gurkhas, under Major Ceel Allanson, lay during the night of August 8-9, and at dawn they climbed to the sum- mit.

With a wild dash they drove the Turks down the reverse slope; they saw the stream of the Straits, with Chanak and Maidos 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- shires, 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 uAC Turkey. Now the Turkish benches V, W, Y and Gully as 1 please. - Foreign Secretary, Tewfik Rush- Ravine; at Lone Pine, the Farm.

NOTES OF THE DAY di Bey, questions the value of the Nek and other points in

VICTORY IN SIGHT?

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"The point really wanted to bring to your attention," he writes, Mix my great doubt whether those unfortunate shells that no complete- Iv scattered us momentarily had really any decisive effect on the balile, Adrittedly, it caused the immediate evacuation of the aummit of the ridge, but the small reserve left in the trenches just below acted

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the necessary 'catch' for the troops falling back. Unassisted and unsupported as we should almost Immediately have discovered our silver to be, I doubt if I should ever have tried to dig in in the open on the summit, and it is probable that we should have dropped back into our little scrapen of die night before and waited for reinforcements so as to enable us to occupy the ridge. with a far longer line than we could have neized alune, So, shella or no shells, the Immediate result would probably have been the same.

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"By 7 a.m. the battalion was again a cohesive unit with but one wounded British officer (myself) with it; twice during the next two hours patrols went back to the sum- mit, with one of which I personally went. The ridge and its neighbour hood

were completely deserted, everything around was xfill. I ap preciated then that a golden and heaven-sent opportunity was slip- ping from our graap, and 1 got n message through to that effect to Brigade Headquarters. Тhе де- knowledgment, timed 0.45 am.. said: 'Held on If you possibly can: further advance on Hill Q is going to be made; keep as close under ridge 23 you can. IXth Army Corps is co-operating on extreme left, and it is possible developments may be entirely in our favour little later on

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that guaranice. 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 Suvla, 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 advices from Europe, Great Britain fortification. in about to offer to lift sanctions

ranks, a memorial columa, and 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 Just beyond the Salt Lake at action was a feeling of relief. And European diplomacy and war for Suvla, I easily found the front It is a sad and somewhat ret on closer analysis, auch a more than a century. Looking trench on Chocolate lill where

remedy for the startling reflection on human complication seems hardly adequate, balls which the old Turkish guns Turkish crescent on the top of Italo-Ethiopian at the great heaps of round stone a fragment of shell cut a fine 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 an- the brain, because, as I told the most peace-loving hostilities in Ethiopia in retuin cient fortress of Sedd-el-Bahr at surgeon later in the day, my

for a lifting of the League of people in the world should now Nations' sanctions, the Ethiopians the mouth, one could realise skull was impervious tɔ all but be compelled to devote time and themselves may have somewhat what the conflict had been. reason. attention to the problems raised different views. It has long been Stronger evidences still are the But, the brand gravel blaze Emperor Halle Selassie's boast that huge modern guns lying smash upon Scimitar Hill has been so by the possibility of war on a Ethiopin 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 upen 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 Admirol hill its name is now obscured, making of the British common- survived. How, then, is. the Carden's naval bombardment on and only those who were present.

Longue of wealth of nations it is safe to Britain, or Italy, going to guaran-

Nations, or Great February 25, 1915.

at the fighting will realise the say that no single class or pro-tee peace in East Africa as long sult from the toe at Helles up to vital position.

But indeed the whole penin- tragic mistake which lost us that fession-one is almost tempteds Ethiopia is not placated? Un-

lesa the League

the rocky edge of Karakol Dagh is prepared to

On the fatal Sunday (August say no single individual offer Italy something in the way beyond Suvla Bay is strewn with 8) when inertia prevailed at desires war on any scale what-of compensation for a retirement relics of our noble and vain en- Suvla during the grant attack Yet the possibility must from Ethiopia-and such an offer deavour to open the Straits by from Anzac which the Suvla he faced and preparations made and such an acceptance on Italy's land and sea.

divisions were expected to sup 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 Lengte, of courac. ruins of the village of Krithia, East York Ploncers; 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 cur take in orders, and the attempts That-example, however, has not in—this direction: Or one thing own and Turkish trenches,-our-to-recapture-the-position-cul-- been followed. Taking risks We can be sure, that any peace party could see that during the minated in the gallant attack by The Ninth Army Corps at

formula submitted now must be

last nineteen years Nature had three brigades of the famous Suvla did not co-operate, but for peace has not removed the bigger and broader than that been at her kindly work. Where 29th 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 sund, all now warfare I ever witnessed, for the precarious position till the early national field have deteriorated.ago, and we recall with misgiving was green. The trenches were dry bush took fire, and the morning of the 10th, when a tor

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 roae in vain. haustive study of the present upon Addis Ababa, is in no mood to

falling, as we know, on the "for accept a bit of cookie when she mary, position, and its conclusions has her hands on the whole cake. planted in thick, round clumps The Ghazi," was by that time He was then ordered to with- Mustapha Kemal Pasha, now troops below and to their right. were recently published in And she knows the difficulties in within the low walls of all the in command, and the attempt to draw, and he highly praises the another official document, which the way of any movement to In- cemeteries.

Gurkha officer who conducted the the weight

recapture a position that was crease

of sanctions is a natural sequel to the White

These are beautifully laid out ours a fortnight before cost us withdrawal. He concludes: against her. She is in no hurry Paper of a year ago. It is a to negotiate peace, and she has let

upon the places where the great-6,500 casualties, deplorable fact that the level of the League of Nations know that national armaments has been she has no. suggestions to make on the subject of concillation. For rising all over the world. Ger- complete victory seems now In man rearmament has proceeded sight. If, as yesterday's messages at a steady but rapid rate lend us to believe, Britain is re- throughout the past year. There conciled to an ultimate surrender of Ethiopia to the Roman con- is a great deal of secrecy about

queror, the League's struggle to the details, but conscription has prevent aggression in this instance been reintroduced for the Army, is at an end; and a blow to the and Germany has certainly aministered which will shake its League's prestige has been ad-

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 na modern Army has been on a war footing.political expediency. Six months ago there were 1,200,000 men undor arms and

the

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 1,300,000 men, and the upon it has been studied, and Soviet Air Force is also being and man 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 more weight in international Britiah statesmen to speak with forces up-to-date, enabling affairs. Details of this plan, authority and power in the aimed at Empire and national counsels of the nations.

remembrance,"

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

"I was just trying out my new car. Could you tell me how fast I was going?"

"I was the action taken by the Turks during those precious 20 hours, and not the shells, that seal- ed the issue of the battle. They were successful in doing what we' failed to do, that is, to concentrate the necessary troops during the night and previous day, to make a 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 H 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. I crept to him. He was nearly senseless, and said: 'Sabib, what will you do without me? 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.' He clung to my band, and the tears, poured from his eyes.”

Such are some of the memories that haunt the Gallipoli Panin- sula. Our attempt to 'open the Straits cost us 28,200 killed, 78,095 wounded, 11,251 miasing making a total of 117,549, British and Anzac men, not in- cluding the French who wore with us.

At the end of the war.. we secured the long-desired ob- Ject of opening the Strafts 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.