Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-29
SHARPSBURG IS
LAID IN SHADE
BY SEDDUL- BAHR
Battle on GaIIipoIi Peninsula
Declared to Be Bloodiest in
History Of World by Mem
Der of Parliament


London. Nov 2I-"Our school
books told as that the bloodiest bat
tie in history was that between the
cQnfederates and federals az Sharps-
burg during the American civil war
when one-third Of am the men en-
gagged were left ON the field But
Sharpshurg was a JOY ride compared
with Seddul- Bahr
Thus betins AN account Of the Gal
lipoli venture 10y Lieutenant COmman-
der, Josiah Wedgwood, the liberal
leader of parliament who has made
the house of commons ring with crit
icism of the Dardanelles campaign
since he returned with special men
ton for bravery and the coveted
striped ribbon Of the d. s. O. (dstin-
guished service order) ut his breast.
He pays a splendid tribute TO In,
Turk The Turks are the finest
fighters in the world, save only tn
Canadians and Australians, And
again; THE Turks could easily have
killed AN those who went TO the
wounded They did not fire on them
sometimes for ten minutes and then
q burst of fire would come Then and
afterwards / found them extraordi-
nariy mereiful as compared with the
enemy in Flanders
only once in his story does he mem
tion battlefield atrocities, and then
he says, the deeds were blamed. not
ON the Turks. but on two foreign off
GERS who were with them, THE two
officers he remarks, were captured
and killed These fiends, it appears,
had instlgated the things done to
those dying lrishmen, and we never
afterwards found similar Turkish
atrocities
First View OF Fighting.
Lieutenant Commander Wedgwood's
first view Of fighting in the Darda-
nelles zone was mt the so-called v.
beach. where the now steamship "Rlv-
er Clyde" was run aground to furnish
cover for the attempted landing
This old Wooden Horse of Troy,
narrates Mr. Wedgwood. was run
ashore on a flawless Sunday morning,
400 Yards from the medieval castle OF
Seddul- Bahr never noticed the
grounding for the horror in the wa
ter on the beach Five lows Of
five boats each. loaded with men.
were goinE ashore alongside Of us.
one moment IL had been early morn
ing in a peaceful country with
thoughts or smells Of COWS hay and
milk and the next. while the boats
were just twenty yards from the
shore. the blue sea around each boat
was turning red. Is there anything
more horrible than to see men wad-
ing through water waist-hiEh under
Il heavy fire. You see whore eacI
bullet hits the water. which like
nightmare holds back the man for the
next shot which win not miss. o.
an those brave men, twO-thirds died
ana hardly q dozen reached unWounded
the shelter Of the fiye-foot sand dune
tout o'clock "a dash across the
row Of lighters from the wooden
horse Was led by General Napier ano
his brigade major Would they evel
get TO the end of the lighters ant
Jump into the sheltering water? No
side by side they sat down on the Ell
CINE eoaming. For one moment one
thought they might be taking cover
then their legs slid out ana they
rolled over
at was the MINISTER'S that charged
first with a sprig of shamrock Oh
their caps then the Dublins the Wor
cesters, the Hampshires, Lying OF
the beach, on the rocks, on the light
ers they cried on the Mother Of God.
Even when / looked ashore | saw flV,
MINISTERS They at some moment has
got ashore; they had been told to Gu
the Wire entanglements, they had lef
the shelter of the bank, charged fif
teen yards TO the wire, and they they
lay in a row at two yards interval
One could hardly believe them dead
an The time great shells kept hitting
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