The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-07-24
Struggle Between Allies and Turk
Armies is Fiercest Of War
Horrors Of Battles Else
where Magnified
SCENES TO MOVE
HEART OF FLINT
Briton Writes Of Bayonettins First
Enemy; Letter Tells Graphic
Story Of Sinking Of Bat
tleship Majestic
BY WILBUR S. FORREST.


UNITED Press Staff Corespondent)
London, July 14.--(By mail.)--
Echoes from the firing lines in the
Dardaneles coming back to London
today in Soldier mail' proclaim the
comparatively small struggle between
the Turks and allies ON narrow Ca
lipoli peninsula the fiercest single
campaign of the war.
All the horrors of battle in northern
France and Belgium and on the gigan-
tic eastern front are repeated and
magnified on Gallipoli. Every soldier
letter has new thrill That the Turks
are a desperate army is admitted in
all Of them
The British army on Gallipoli Is a
wondrous mixture. Fighting beside
the turbaned native troops from In
dia are the Irish from Dublin, the ia
nous MINISTER'S and a regiment or two
from Cork. Further on down the line
are the men from faraway New zea-
land and Australia, while other
trenches hold the British territorials
from Manchester, Birmingham, and
Liverpool The killed Scots from Edin-
burgh and Glasgow are also there as
well as the picturesquely uniformed
French Zouaves and bearded regulars
of the French contingent taking their
chances against the Turks with the
British.
The roar of the big naval guns in
the straits blend with the smaller
noises of artillery on land and the
crackle of machine guns and rifle
fire.
"The spectacles we see here on land
and water would move a heart OF
flint" writes member OF the Dublin
fusilers. mo words can describe what
we've left behind in our march since
we landed here. The shore
and sides of the steep cliffs were
dotted with the corpses Of Turks and
British alike. l lost every pal knew"
A picturesque story was received to-
day from Private A. Nj. Sampson. Thir-
teenth Australian battalion. He
writes.
Yesterday | was iu a charge.
bayoneted Turk right through the
neck. He was the first man | ever
killed and the sight made me sick and
! squeamish I've tried to sleep since,
but it's hard work, for ! frequently
wake up and seem to feel my bayonet
going into that Turks neck. Ugh!
It's beginning to get on my nerves.
J However, the life here is rather ex-
citing and a bit adventurous. Within
sight of our trench is our Watchdog
warship patrolling up and down, and
! at intervals letting out ten inch shells
over our heads and into the enemy's
trenches. | don't know her name but
we call her old Funnels.' I've been
wounded. But it was just scratch OF
shrapnel on the leg, so haven't both.
cred to report it. Many of my COM
rades have done their bit and cashed
in their checks. One especially liked
was firing alongside of me and ex-
posed himself too long. A bullet pass
ed through his temple. He cashed In
at once. but so did the sniper that got
him, for | waited for him and got him
in the same place fifteen minutes
later"
Advices in the same mail stated
that Sampson had been seriously
wounded and taken aboard hospita
ship.
A private in the sixth Manchester
territorials writes:
The countryside is beautiful but
the trees are torn by bullets and
shells. Gigantic pieces OF exploded
oroiectiles from the warships II,
about and shrapnel bullets as big al
tennis balls, dead Turks lie rottinl
; against tie scssiet poppies. TIL.
scene is 10th beautiful and horrible