South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-12
NOTHING ABLE To
STOP AUSTRIA ANS
Men Find Turks Underneath
Roof But Find Way to
Drive Them Out.

LONDON. Nov. 12.-In a dispatch
By capt. Bean. the official press rep
resentative with the Australian forces
at the DardaneHes. there is stirring
account OF the battle of the Lone
Pine trenches" which took place IN
August
He writes
~The Lone Pine stood out Of the
BACKGROUND behind the white line OF
the Turkish dump-a tattered relic
OF the. greenery that once flourished
there. II had long since lost its leaves
and its bark and all except one brok-
en- remnant Of a branch.
"A few DAYS later il was determined
n send the first Australian infantry
brigade against Lonesome Pine.
"Five-thirty y. m. A whistle
sounded taken up from a score OF diff
ferent points. The officer in our
recess had sounded his and was
clambering out over the dusty sand
bags The whole population Of that
recess was scramblins up on the step
and over the top, knocking down
showers OF earth.
The khaki figures were racing to-
wards that long. low molehill in the
scrub with the ugly, dark, half-con-
cealed shadows OF the loopholes low
Australian wore white bands on his
sleeves and square white patch on
his back and the whole heatnland
seemed full Of white patches hurry
ing towards the sand mounds opposite.
AS the TANKS OF the line passed for
ward one could see just 10 the north
Of them the ugly bare semi-circular
lines OF the enemy's position on the
northern lobe OF this heart-shaped
Il
lobe with little valley between.
lone had expected that when the
troops arrived on the other side they
would fire into the trench for a mo
ment and then jump into the space
they had cleared. But the white
patches did not jump in as they came
to the enemy's trench. They grad
ually strung out along il, standing up
as men might string out along a curb
when they run up to see a street pro-
cessiOn. Those who came up from
behind poked along among their
comrades until they found a place,
and they stood there too obviously
puzzled
Look Upon Solid Roof.
"As a matter of fact they had found
themselves looking down not into a
trench but upon a very solid roof,
made of logs with withered boughs
and earth spread over them. Some
OF those were nine by six and there
was no more chance of pushing them
down than Of pushing in the roof of
a church. This is what in military
parlance may be called a check. The
first two lines were stopped there
puzzled what 10 do. Shrapnel had
begun TO rain by this time, machine
guns were splitting from the trenches
TO right and left. the Turks at their
feet were firing through the loop
holes-but the one thing that no man
seemed even to dream of doing was
to come back
Some fired down into the loop
holes-some who happened to find
small gaps in the line Of headcover
In front Of them Jumped down thera
and began TO work into the dark shell
ters under the headCOycT where the
Turks were-others went on over She
first trench and even over the second
trench and into communication
trenches which had no headcover
over them but through which the
Turks were heeing-fOr prisoners.
say. and there is doubt of it, that the
Turks are afraid of the Australians.
"Others noticed that in the solid
roof in front of them. near the edge
where the lOOphOles are, there were
manholes left at intervals. apparently
10 allow the listening patrols to creep
at night. They were lust large
enough to allow a man. to wriggle
through. and that was enOuch for the
first brigade. They wriggled down
into them, feet foremost, as a bur
glar might wriggle into a skylight. II
was a deed for which. if il were a