Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-08-09

You can go anywhere you please, salo
Field Marshal Liman Won Sanders
Pacha to the Associated Press cores
pondent, when the latter presented his
credentials and asked for permission
to visit the front.
II may add that the military situa-
ton is most favorable for us" he con-
tinued. I'VE intend driving the British
out Of Ari Bournou, before long. But
we are in no hurry because we can
achieve that without making the sac
rifices which might still be necessary
to get rid Of the enemy"
The supreme commander of the
Turkish forces on the Gallipoli Pen
Ursula Is a man somewhat advanced
in years, but remarkably we'll pre-
served. He is about six feet tall, and
well proportioned in body; there is a
SOFT quality in the lines of his face
and the expression of his eyes. Liman
Pacha came to Turkey in the summer
OF 1913 to assist, as mead Of the Ger
man military mission, in the reorgan-
ization of the Ottoman army. He has
been an interchangeable worker in that
capacity, and the splendid conduct of
the Sultan's troops in this war may be
said to be largely due to the reforms
instituted on his advice.
In his conversation with The Asso-
clated Press correspondent, Liman Pa
cha outlined briefly the course which
military events on the peninsula had
| taken since the landing in the last
| week of April.
I'm forty-nine days (the interview
occurred on June 11th) the Allies have
done little beside losing ground stead
lly, said the commander.
Their offensive collapsed as soon as
we were able to counteract their tao
| tics. 1t must be borne in mind that
| this happened despite a superiority in
artillery that left our own arm Of that
character no chance whatever For
Gays and days the Allied ships bonn
narded and searched every part of the
peninsula with an artillery fire as Sc
we're and lncessant as, on the whole.
II was unproductive of results favor
able to the British and French troops.
Will say that the moral effect of a
heavy bombardment is not as lasting
in the case of Turkish troops, as the
Allies may have expected. Our brave
Ottoman soldiers are not easily frigh-
tened by noise, owing to their splendid
nerVes-and this is war of nerves.
war in which strong nerves meal
victory"
Later IN the day the correspondent
was given letter by Liman Pacha
in which all comma nders at the front
To
of. their sectors by the holder On the
following Gay, June 18th, the position
at Ari Bournou were visited
But in the Aegean sea two British
cruisers were manoeuvring when the
ride to Ari Bournou began. Since $50
A. NJ. they had kept up a rather Sc
we're bombardment Of certain parts Of
the peninsula. Passing through the
section under fire it was Obvious that
indirect fire, without observers, is a
waste of ammunition. The fire of the
cruisers was purely chance" work
No aeroplane or captive balloon was
up and the heavy shells exploded in
the open and on the wheatfields.
Ninety were counted and the result
achieved is represented by zero.
| The bombardment ceased about A.
M. little later the Ari Bournou DO
sition was reached, and the journey
covered ground formerly occupied by
the British troops, which at Ari
| Bournou. are exclusively contingents
from Australia and New Zealand.
The center of the British position
is Ari Bournou, or Cape Arr. Here a
long outer trench has been dug. Be-
hind this outer trench the British have
established a second line of defense.
consisting of two short sectors. Back
OF the southernmost of these sectors
lies another trench, serving, evidently,
as support to an artillery redoubt
located on the summit of Cape Ari
itself.
| This may be called the center Of the
British position, though the left flank
of the British consists of single short
trench on a hill about 400 yards north
of the extreme point of the northern
sector.
The British right flank, or southern
series of entertainments. is located on
! the southeast of the korkou-Deresi
| creek and follows the course of an ad-
vanced trench and two supporting Sec
! tors.
| With Ari Bournou as pivot, the Brit
ish position is crescent-shaped, about
$500 yards long from north to south.
| and HOO yards wide in line drawn
across Ari Bournou. The site is rather
| bare. There is small spring on it,
! and most of the water needed by the
British troops has to be brought from
the adjacent islands.
| The Turkish trenches are in one case
only two yards from the British trench.
| At another point the trenches Of the
opposing forces are only ten yards
apart. Constant sapping by the Turks
is the cause Of this interesting con-
dition. Already the British trenches
have been blown up by the Turks in
three places. Hand grenades and large
bombs thrown by catapult are used
| by the British. One Of the former
had failed to explode and was the
subject Of study of some Turkish Off
| GERS. The bomb consisted of cast
steel outer shell, IL inches in diam
eter and about inches long. The
shell contained an inner tube filled
with an explosive.
About noon Essad Pacha, commander
Of the third army, and during the
late Balkan war. defender of Janina