FIRMLY ESTABLISHED.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4002, 7 August 1915, Page 6

FIRMLY ESTABLISHED.

THE ALLIES IN GALLIPOLI. ' daily BOMBARDMENTS Bv Telegraph—Special Correspondent. ' AUCKLAND, Aug. 5. Reuter’s special correspondent at the Dardanelles circulated the following despatch under date June 3: “The British and French armies are firmly established on the Peninsula in position! from which no efforts of the Turks can drive thorn. They are well equipped with all needful stores and dui-iim the weeks that have elapsed since the landing important remlornaments have been disembarked. Ibe reMmonts depleted by the heavy fightin" in April and May have been brought up to strength and our army is no'lon'egr dependent upon the navy except for the keeping of our sea communications. How" well the navy is able to discharge this task I have only to raise my eyes to convince mysolt from the deck of the historic River Clyde on which this despatch is written. Ono has a close view oyer the activities on two British landing beaches. A dozen largo transports and numerous smaller ciart are m s i,rht —all of which are or lately were utmacred in putting ashore materia for"tfic arniv. Daily men, horses and hundred of tons of stores are landed unchecked and to all intents and purposes unhampered by the enemy. - VIGOROUS NIGHT ATTACKS. If one could see through the mass of the peninsula similar scenes of activity would he visible. At the other landing beaches on the northern coast w"“ o on unloading practically undisturbed Ashore the army is. still on- ■ Smcd pushing out and sira.ghtenmg its°front bv means ol nocturnal nishes • a „d much spade work. Provided - ’ body starts firing, these tactus, aic » o-enerallv Viccessful but it firing starts > from some neighboring portion of tk line the Turks set up a fusillade all ' alone the front and work is I ' ll P°," > siblt”for that night. The enemy lateb 1 delivered several vigorous night ut- , t'vks against isolated portions of the i w Now that tlic trenches are sc c’hwe the men amuse themselves plav.no- tricks of various sorts on the 1 Turks Occasionally they signal tc the Turks reports on their shootifi waving a stick or a rifle in a cel tavr way to indicate whether the last sho was good or bad. The Turk some times responds in kind, hut nei m side accepts implicitly the other s i formation. MORNING AND EVENING “HATES.”

17 during the last few days tno enemy’s artillery lias been more active his “morning” and “eveinna: bates as the soldiers call the daily bomba 1 ments have been more prolonged an l vicious. On Tuesday the/-evening hate’-' lasted all night ami . merged into the “morning hate’' without a break. The front trendies are litt/ bothered bv these bombardments. Ihe oneinv tries to reach, the landiip, beaches and the reserve trenches and the rest camps with shells, know in 0 that lie has greater opportunity of ooin« mischief in a camp where men are walking about freely than in a trench. The consequence is that all the camps are perfect rabbit warrens of sheKcr pits and dug-outs to which the men can retire when the shelling gets too hot. They have, however, a line contempt for cover and show themselves freely' even within sight of the enemy s trenches. Sometimes the enemy -drops a salvo of half a dozen or more shells simultaneously to catch the men before they can disperse. Jhe noise is terrific usually more to than the clam-ao-e Our best protection is of course our"own artillery which is superior to tno enemy’s. PRESENCE OF MIND. The value of presence of mind under shell fire was signally demonstrated at Sedd-el-Bahr beach yesterday. A French soldier was carrying two buckets of water to mess when a shell burst near him and broke open a cask, of wine. The soldier instantly emptied the buckets, filled them * the rapidly ebbing cask, and returned to mess drinking wine instead of water This incident is typical ot the spirit with which our men treat the enemy’s “hates.”