BOMB FROM GALLIPOLI.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4006, 12 August 1915, Page 4

BOMB FROM GALLIPOLI.

; XTFHK.'TT NG -OUYEXIR FROM THE TURKS.

[Press Association Telegram.] WELLINGTON*. Aug. ]l. An interesting souvenir, straigi I*-uni the hard-won trendies of Gail

noli, has been received from Captain A. J. Cross (formerly a master ax Wellington College) by Air J- F. I; nil (Principal of the College). _ It m m the shape of an unexploded hand grer;r.de. thrown by the Turks into tee New Zealanders trenches. The h<nn ri is about the size of a cricket bah. weighs just on 2lbs, and can be eomlortahlv accommodated in me palm.ot the hand. It has a brass top. which can be unscrewed, and attached t<« this is a small brass ring. The non: 1 >- Vicmi*fi’uUr made and has a iu<-e .‘.l-tached to* it. The unique yokmi arrived in an empty anu much-uonu-i tin. wluc-li had apparently bully beef, and which was neatiy st-iti’-hed up in a piece oi undermiri. A piece oi the same garment. utilised as inV-king. In a letter under separate cover. written in lead pencil on a scran <-t Yellow papei and dated 16th -Hun , Captain Cross has something, interesting- to >ay regarding the particu.ai bomb he lias forwarded and bom->s m genera!: ■•This is rhe type of bomb the gentle u.email i< at present throwing into nur trench hero. The trenches arc m places fit teen yards apart, so you nia> guess that tve do not suffer ironi I mini. The modus opera ndi is a> ;GJows: A hoinb- —or, to be most tu eur{,te. a grenade (as you see it) —mils fizzing into our trench. A man specially told oil tor the f>u!po>* throws an overcoat over it- t-o locan-'-the effect, and our own bomb-thrower* send back three of our bombs. lan bomb did not explode, aim I gn <>iu of our engineers to extract- me 'explosive—a yellowish powder—and *«»' vletonator, so that .it is now qune I?armless. Thev explode upwards at a steep angle, so that if one throw•• oneself face down tney are quite harmless at a few feet away. Howcvei. one killed Goulding a few c.ays ago. I understand he also was an ex-ma-st-m ...f Wellington College; also poor oM R nice Alorrison is at present_m hospital suffering from the effe-ts oi splinters from a bomb like this. ">'•;• it into 'em. hoys ! Give 'em three to. •one!’ is the advice of General b ySind our follows tako an onbolv lli doing so. Big ‘Tiny' 0 Neill, oi m> v-ompativ, has a stiff arm. as a r«-sii of throwing 190 bombs in one ««■>-.- - Yours sincerely. Alek 0. Cross.