The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-26
Special Correspondence to Tns Sen

Is seeking to know the ann OF the man
who Is deprived Of his commission be-
cause he commanded 1t Suvla Bay or
August 6. A dozen names have been
confidently mentioned. but no n seems
to know Just who the man 10. The
Weekly Dispatch has h following to
say on the subject:
Why does The Government seek TO
preserve the secret? II the driver OF
an express train makes . mistake n
causes the death Of q scofe Of passen-
gers his name IL made public ~ ouce.
He not infrequently serves a sentence
for granddaughter. the railway company
concerned striving by all means In IL
power to vindicate is system and TO
show that the mlshap was due TO q per-
sonal error. Sympathy with such .
mar In his grief and humiliation does
not carry so far that he 10 safe from
public condemnation and ~punishment.
The Law demands that he shall be pun
ished, II only TO encourage the Others.
The mistake Of 5uvla Bay . in
volved the allied Powers in = trouble
Of the frst magnitude. Sir Edward Grey
has told the House Of Commons and the
world at large that an important VIC
tory was needed to swing the Balkan
States to the side Of the Entente Powers.
The operation at Suvla Bay gave prom
ise of an advantage at least substantial
enough to hold the balance even II
might have led to results that would
have swung the scales in our v
Responsibility Not One Maa's.
THE lost opportunity secreted by
these asu words can only be outlined
In the most sketchy fashion. but the
barest outline will convince anybody that
no single person should Be made the
namAless s~capegoat. 1t begins with the
landing OF British troops on GallipoL
peninsula. on April Is. formidable
preparations had been made to prevent
that landing. IN II wa only by q
miracle Of courage and ~pertinacity that
the British troops got q footing there.
Provision Of even this possibility had
at Cape Helles and the bold invaders
found themselves at once faced with
line after line Of dcfences eliminating
In the miniature Gibraltar Of Mount
Achi Bahia.
Even the long sighted German de-
signers Of the defence OF Gallipoli were
not prepared for the miracle Of the land
Ing at Gaba Tepe. The defences there were
confined to trenches on the cliff top.
strongly manned to well placed bat
teries and machine runs and to the
LOI miuuOiO ouVAutuB0 Nue TOuBu COuu.
try gave to It's defenders. Allowing for
all eventualtties they had decided that q
landing there was utterly impossible.
THE impossible wa achieved by the
soldiers Of Australia n New Zealand.
Suffering enormous losses. they scaled
cliffs that have been likened to the
heights Of Quebec; with the essential
difference hat Quebec was surprised.
while the cliffs Of Gaia Tops
or~ hra,.at.. 1oPorAAA THAI MANA
trated every line Of defence hat had
been prepared, and some Of them got
half way across the peninsula to their
objective at Maidos before they were
turned back by a Turkish army Of thres
times their strength which had been
hurried TO the spot. Net 10000 men In
all were landed at Gaba Tepe had they
been 10000 they would have beaten the
Turks in the ope and marched across
the peninsula to take Maidos. No man
who took part in the landing but will
tell o the same thing.
las II was they retired fighting "a
places as near the beach as they dared
to go and then dug in. Their intrench'
ments were made in places dictated by
necessity and not by hoice There
they stayed and defended their footing
waiting for the backing that never
came. So far from being REINFORCED
one brigade Of them was withdraw
from their landing place to participate
in an attack made on Achi Baba withir
a fortnight Of the first landing. They
returned to Amaze Cove, covered with
glory but sadly weakened In numbers.
"For many weeks the efforts Of thu
allied forces were concentrated p
forcing the main position at Achi Baba
The official dispatches reveal fully tn
part assigned to the men of Anzac II
these operations. They had 40 many
thousand Turks before them, n wher
an attack was made at Cape Helle
these Turks must be kept occupied 81
fully that not one OF them should b1
withdrawn to strengthen the defence.
Of Achi Baba.
A~ustralasia's Answer.
But insistence on the military posi-
bilities Of the Anzac position was nov
made. Col. ST. Clair Cameron. an ex
perienced officer Of the British army.
former Senator of the Commonwealth
and the military adviser OF Gen. Bird
wood, came to London with a report an
recommendations. The main features O
that report were published In tho paper
of Australasia to serve as a %recruitinl
appeal. They set forward the fact tina
the Turkish Vines Of communicate
! might be cut W Anzac and Maido
IL the forces then at Anxac receive
: SUFFICIENT support. The response mad
= in Australasia to that appeal may b
= "a thered from the fact that, over zoo 90
men have either been despatched or ar
preparing to 80 from Australasia an
= New Zealand to the D~ardanelles.
THE penetration Of the Sea OF Mar
q mora by British submarines favored tn
plan still further. n the attempt I
carry 1t out was represented by tn
landing at Suvla Bay. The way wa
prepared for that operation by the An
zacs in a series OF wonderful eats o
arms. They drew the main forces o
the Turks away to their right by tn
hercest charges that have been made 4
the history Of warfare. The First Bri
A gade and part of the Second took the al
most impregnable % Pine trenches 1
q fight, the dim outline OF which IL por
trayed by the award of seven Victori
Crosses. Next to them the Sixth Bat
talon expended itself in q fruitles
charge on the mysterious, well defende
German officers trench. Not q ma
reached that trench.
"The charge of the Light Horse frol
Russell's Top across the neck to Hi
Baby 500 IL one OF the epics Of the WI
In Gallipoli. Capt. Bean. the Austria
ian Eyewitness has told hat while
lasted. and for some hours afterwar'
every Turk in the neiEhborhood WI
pinned to the defence OF the position
e He also stated that 1t lasted lust a qua
atoms between Walkers Ridge and Cal