New Britain herald., 1915-08-30
.GALLIP0LI WRECKED
 BY BOMBARDMENT
Incident to Landing of Allied
 Troops on Peninsula

Correspondence of the Associated Press.)
 Gallipoli, Peninsula, July 3o.- There are few houses on the Galli- poll peninsula 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 vineyards and olive groves where work might be done In the villages the few remaining shops stand idle. From the harbors along the Dardanelles and Gulf of Saros the boats have vanished, and the nets of the fisherman have dried in the hot sun a long time.
 Windmills Are Ruins.
 Out on the fields the crude blows and harrows lack oxen. The wind mills are ruins or have had their canvas sails stripped by shot and shell.
 Town, village and countryside have been deserted by their populations. The picturesque civilian garb of Turk and Greek has disappeared and in- stead everywhere the dull olive drab and hardy brighter khaki uniform of the Turkish soldier.
 This is the Gallipoli peninsula to- day.
 Towns Have Been Razed
 The British and French ships have thrown tens of thousands heavy shells on the narrow strip of land. Maidos and Noulain have been razed. Kir- th1lia is a heap of ruins and Gallipoli stands as a monument to what mod ern artillery may do. To any of these ho O. In1 ~tI lage, and hamlet on the peninsula. and they are by no means few in number.
 The expenditure of artillery and aeroplane ammunition of the Brit ish and French has been enormous. and wasteful. This morning & Brit 1sh cruiser threw into the town of Gall1poH, exactly 1O1 shells-a sort of salute to Czar Mars, because there Is nothing in Gallipoi, to call for such an extravagance with the tax payers money. At another point, nearbz 98 shells Were hurled. Both pombardments resulted in a bag of one shepherd wounded
 BOmbardment Fine Exhibition.
 But the bomardment was fine For the greater part of an hour it kept the echos of the Gal li1poli hills busy. Then the cruiser steamed to other parts-to one of the islands in the Aegean, where its crew may be enjoying a good rest at this m moment.
 Not square foot of ground on the peninsula is safe against the British ship artillery fire, though l dugouts help. The British gunners start early-about 5:15 o'clock in the morning. Why, nobody knows. Light conditions for them would be best l late in the afternoon, when the sun 1 illuminates the hills of the peninsula from the southwest, when, in other words, it is behind instead of be- fore. the gunner. But modern gum nery Is not hampered much by such trifes as light conditions, especially when indirect fire, or map" bo1n- bardments make the eye of the can- noneer almost a superfiuous thing.
 Astronomy of Great Use.
 In the coming tower of the bonn barding vessel stands an officer with 3 map and a few other accessories, and puts the higher mathmatics, and the reports of aero plane scouts and observers to good use. Astronomy and artillery may seem unrelated, but at pinch the officer of the .bombarding ship can make splendid use of it. If the land marks on the coast do not l suit his purposes, we'll enough, he can establish to a fraction of a l second just where he is. measure distance between gun and 1 target on his map, shout certain num- bers to his crews in the turret and bang!
 The proceeding is simple enough and the landscape of the peninsula, were it sentient being, would know 1t. The peninsula gives the impress sion of pest of very large and ex- ceedingly active moles having visited t-together with a violent earth quake. Seen from an elevation, To- cated where, the hills, slopes and nar- row valleys appear to have broken put in a sort of bad rash.
 Has Close Call.
 Daily the rash increases. A few lays ago The Associated Press cor was walked at 5:15 a. m. oy having a shell explode inconven- ently close-through the canvass wall 'f the tent in which he slept, or had slept until that moment. Other shells 'ame and before the British cruiser to be silent over 80 shots had anded, both far from, and near to, he tent. But by that time the cor respondent lay snug in a bomb-proof.
 If 1t isn't artillery that spells the iallipoli landscape it his the busy bomb. The Allies have