The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-07

suIa that have not been wrecked by the severe bombardment incident to the landing of the Allied troops last April and there are no houses that are now inhabited.
 There are wheat fields waiting for the reaper and vinyards and olive groves where work might be done. In l the villages the few remaining shops stand idle From the harbors along the DardanelIes and Gulf of Saros the boats have vanished. and the nets of the fishermen have dried in the hot sun a long time.
 Out in the fields the crude blows and harrows lack oxen., The windmills are ruins or have had their canvas sails stripped by shot and shell. l Town, village and countryside have been deserted by their populations: The picturesque civilian garb of Turk and Greek has disappeared and instead everywhere the olive drab and hardlys brighter khaki uniform of the Turkish
 soldier. f6 I This is the Gallipoli peninsula to- Iday.
 The British and French ships have l thrown tens of thousands of heavy I shells on the narrow strip of land I Maidos and Nou1ain have been razed.
 Kirthia is a heap of ruins and Gallf- T lpol stands as a monument to what modern artillery may do. To any of sI these must be added every other town, I village and hamlet on the peninsula, and they are by no means few in mum sl Der.
 I aeroptar1e arnnlunitio of the British
 and French has been enormous, and
 wastefl11 One morning. a British l cruiser threw into the town of Galli- poll. exactly 1O1 shells-a sort of sa- lute to Car Mars. because there is Inothing in Gallipoh to call for esucn 4 an extrayaganca with the taxpayers I money. At another point, nearby, 9S sl shells were hurled. Both bonbard- 4 nents resulted in a bag of one shep-
 herd wounded.
 I But the bornbardment was a fine
 exhibition. For the greater part of an Incur it kept the echos of the Galh- poi hills busy Then the, cruiser I steamed to other parts-to one of the ] islands in the Aegean, where its crew
 may be enjoying .. good rest at this
 moment
 Not a square foot of ground on the I perai nsuIa is safe against the British I ship artillery fire, though dugouts II help. The British gunners start early | about 5:15 o'clock in the morning Why. nobody knows. Light condi-
 tions for them would be best late in I the afternoon, when the sun illuminr <. zates the hills Of the peninsula. from I the southwest. when, in other words. Il it is behind, instead of before the I eunners. But modern g-unnery is not
 hampered much by such trif1ers4 as flight conditions especially when in-
 direct fire, or map dbornbar dTnents
 make the eye of the cannoneer almost
 a Supera1oIS thing.
 In the conning tower of the bonn
 harding vessel stands an officer with a
 map and a. few other accessories and Il puts the hi gfler rnath ennatics. astron-
 onay. and the reports of aerQplane
 scouts and observers to good use. As-
 
 lated, but sat a, pinch the antillery of Fl fcer of the bonn barding ship can make
 splendid use Of it, If the land marks Il on the coast do not suit his purpose
 well enough, he can establish to a
 fraction of a geographical second just s where he is, measure distance be-
 tween gun and target on his map.
 shout certain numbers to his crews in T the turret and--bangi
 ]. The proceeding is simple enough ! and the landscape of the peninsula.
 were it. a sentient being, would know it. The peninsula. gives the inpres- sion of aSpest of very large and ex- ceedingly active moles having visited it-together with a violent earth earthuuake Seen from an elevation,
 located anywhere the mills. slopes and
 narrow valleys appear to have broken
 out in a sort of bad rash.
 Daily the rash increases 4 few s days ago The Associated Press corre- 5 spondent was walked at 5:15 a. m. by having a shell explode inconveniently close-through the canvas wall of the l tent in which he slept, or had slept ! until that moment. Other shells came and before the British cruiser deigned to be silent over so shots had landed, both far from, and near to, the tent : But by that time the correspondent lay 3 snug in a boub-proof-s
 If@it isn't artillery that spells the r - sA -LT-z : a4 } p1anist's bomb. The allies have many t flyers and all of them are bent upon
 making life on the peninsula as pre-
 carious as possible. Every day these
 birds of i'll omen come, and they all t-fhrow bombs some explode with one : bang, others do the trick in three in- r staIlm ents-in a sort of ripping crash ) that makes the sound of striking light r ming poor imitation of what man s1 can do in that line.
 s The hole left by the aerial bomb is not large. But the landscape suffers nevertheless. Everything within a : generous radius of the explosion goes 5 down. The grass vanishes under the : hot whitening breath, and bush and , tree are snapped like so many dry } twigs.
 To the British bombarding ships the } Turks pay no heed-for good reasons. The bolnbardments are carried on from so long a range that the TnI rx- , ish batteries cannot reach these dis : turibers of the idyllic peace, but the 3 aerop1ane can be given at least a f5t- ; tie attention. The hum of it's motor l is hardly heard when certain patterBes 5 get ready. But to get an aeroplane
 down is largely accident, and the avi-
 ator knows it. So he sails and
 just to return pliments he drops , 1 a bomb when he inagines he is over
 the offending battery-which he hard
 Iy> ever is, according to two weeks ex-
 perience of The Associated Press cor 2 respondent.
 What goes in the air must come , down again. The law of gravity : makes no exception. even in the case