Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1915-08-08

the summit and hummed past the
heads OF the party.
/ IL was 2;3O p. M. when the camp
F was reached. General Weber had been
taking a nap, but accepted an unin.
tended interruption good-nauredly.
No objection at all" said Weber
Pacha, after he had read a letter
from Liman Pacha. in which the cor
respondent was given permission to
visit the North and South Groups
provided their commanders had no OBJ
lection. Then followed the part Of
the conversation already given.
The situation was most favorable
TO the Ottoman forces, he continued.
Had it not been that the Allied ships
literally overwhelmed the peninsula
with artillery fire during the landing
operations. not a single British or
French soldier would have set foot
ashore But for days and days the
Allied ships had bombarded every
square yard ON the southern extreme
of the peninsula making it impossible
to move the Ottoman troops. without
exposing them TO almost instant an
Inhalation. But day after day the
Turks dug more trenches and improv
ed them, Then 80 was that the Allied
land forces ran into a wall of Turkish
pluck and endurance.
I'm those days Weber Pacha was in
- command of the Ottoman forces be
hind Kun Kale Here the French tueC
their luck General Weber forced
hem back The operations agaius
- he Asiatic side at Kun Kale were n,
- leint Weber Pacha has in his posses
'sion the General order" of tn,
d French landing troops Kun Kale an,
J. It's neiehborhood were 10 be taken an,
held at AN cost in order that the Tu
b kish batteries in that locality might b.
captured 10 was feared that thes
d batteries would prove a thorn in tn
side of the Allied troops at Sid-eLBahr
D because they could sweep, and at pres
g.. emit do sweep. every day. the position
q ON the Allied right wing
q The French failed TO hold Kun
Kale. because the Turkish batterie
moved down everything ON the grouu
: held By the French troops, and the o.
toman infantry vadod I'M with the bay
onet I'm a manner which not even tn
| French, no mean performers with IN
bayonct themselves. could stand. $
they re-embarked and went to Side
| Bahr where today, they form the A
lied right wing and are almost dali
subjected TO a CALLING fire by IN
| Turkish batteries they were to 81
ence, AT any rate the British force
form the left wing at Sid-elBah
which is out Of effective reach OF IA
| Turkish KUN Kale" batteries.
| Early in May, General Weber wa
/ transferred to command the Sout
| Group of the Ottoman forces Of Gall
poll
About four i'm the afternoon the fir
visit to the actual Sil-elBahr froI
was made by The Associated Pre-.
correspondent The route taken le
across "A stretch Of country on whiC
the Allied ships and land artilleI
have thrown tens of thousands Of sht
and shrapnel For miles the earth
SCARED with the holes and burrows
exploded projectiles. Fragments
steel are almost as common as rocl
ON New England field Within a fe
square yards one can find parts
projectiles Of every calibre and d
scription from the three-inch shel
of field artillery 10 the l5-inch gian
Of the superdreadnousht Queen Eliz
beth. Some Of the holes torn into d
lground are large enough to complet
ly hide several men on horseback. L