A TURKISH PONTOON.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XL, Issue 12536, 6 May 1915, Page 6

A TURKISH PONTOON.

\YAR TROPHY FROM EGYPT. -By Telegraph. (Special to Oaniani Mail.) Wellington. May 5. One of thp pontoons captured from the Turks during their unsuccessful attempt to cross the Suez Canal has reached here on a transport, and will be .senL to Nelson as a trophy won by the efforts of the Nelson Regiment or the New Zealand Expedit onary Force. The nontoon is about 2o feet long by 5 feet beam, and about 3 feet in depth, it must wn'irh over half a ton. and the marvel is that so awkward a- load could have been transported some hundreds of miles over the desert. It ;- made of thin iron, galvanised, and contains onlv a few nieces of timber as runners. ' Bullet holes are plentiful, and in one side there are three jagged smashes made bv a shell, and since enLorgcd by curio hunters, who._ w;th soiiie difficulty, have taken off small piece- as mementoes. The pontoon, according to one of the ambulance men who 'saw the fight, was pushed over the embankment on the Canal side, and followed in 'its descent to the waters bv scores of Turks, who instautlv crowded it and pushed off, only to be sunk bv shell fire before reaching land.