Arizona republican., 1915-09-13
ACTION RADIUS
 ALSO LIMITED
Nearness to Each Other of Opposing Forces Leads to Bombardment of Their Own Soldiers in Battles for Trenches.
TASsocIArEp PREss 5IsPATcH1

CONSTANTINOPLE Sept. 12.-Over four months have passed since the position" war between the allies and the. Turks at Ari-Burnu and Seddul- Bahr started. On May 4. the Turkish troops had dug and occupied the trenches in which. with few exceptions, they are still found today.
 Orfensives by the allies. and counter otfensives by the Turks, have led to but slight changes in the terrains occu- pied immediately after the landing of the allied troops during the last week of April. At Ari-Burnu very little ter rain has been lost by either side. While temporary changes have been some what greater and more frequent at Seddul- Bahr. both. Turks and allies. have strained constantly every resource 10 regain what had been lost. In most cases the allies have re-occupied lost trenches by virtue of overwhelming hombardments, while the Turks have retaken their lost trenches at the point of the bayonet as a rule. Latterly. too, the saPper's mine has been often em- ployed by both sides when a trench of the opponant had to be taken. or when a trench had to be re-occupied.
 Recently position fighting on the Gallipoh peninsula has diminished to what may be termed its minimum. The Turks have not pressed the allies. be- cause. for the time being, little was to he C1fned by driving the French and English forces from the peninsula. It has been argued here. that, so long as the allies are at Ari Burnu and SedduI- Bahr. other landing operations else where are unlikely. The allies landed
 
 naval artillery fire the violence of which has not yet been forgotten by the Turks. To have the same exper- fence on some other part of the Euro pean- or Asiatie coast. does not appeal to the Turks
 Meanwhile the naval ari land artil- iery of the allies is no longer as active as il has been in the past. The action radius of both arms has been greatly limited by the nearness to one another or the opposing trenches. Several weeks ago. the Turks and allies tried to make bombardment of the other sides trenches easy and safe by mark ing their own trenches with little white signs The first step in this direction was taken by the Turks But the all lies soon discovered what had been done. and placed similar signs along the trenches. Then the British and French trenches were marked with a. light-yeIlow sign for the guidance of rhe allied naval and land artillery. The Turks learned of this and placed sim liar signs along their own trenches Several bombardments attempted after that led to shelling ones own positions Since then the trench has become the safest place against artillery fire near the front
 That the artillery markers, the signs spoken of. are of no value when ex- posed by both sides. is due to the fact that the lires Of trenches run in and out of one another. and that. usually. either side must so label several trenches running parallel to the ad- vance position which established the boundary of the terrain that may be shelled without placing friendly troops in jeopardy. This condition is largely responsible for the long spell of inac- fivity which the allied fleet has had though the presence of the German submarines has also had a deterrent effect Everything considered, it may he said that under present conditions, The Turkish artillery on the peninsula can do as much work as the numerical iy greatly superior allied artillery.
 On the British and French troops this has had no good influence As an in
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