The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-08-10
C Colonial Forces
Are Advancing
(. Cautiously '

THE following extracts are taken
from O letter recently received by
Honolulan from Cpl. James g.
Meek, formerly Of this city, who is Mt
present serving with the New Zealand
Engineers at the Dardanelles:
"Daybreak came soon and we made
ourselves comfortable on the sands,
About six clock the hillsfles along
the shore were Swarming with men who
had crawled out Of their dngouts and
who were busy preparing breakfast
g As we set about to do likewise q
chap came strolling along with his hand
bandaged. He had been wounded dur
ing the night and was ON his way to
hospital. He stopped to throw an
empty tin out Of the shore path, just
to let us know that he didn Z give q
damn and was In no hurry. q" T..
Face Machine Guns
1--WE got to talking with the bows.
many of whom came ashore with the
first landing party. 1t must have been
fierce to face the machine guns while
getting through wire entanglements.
/. Most of the men threw off their
heavy equipment and went on with
they were short Of ammunition later
took. They had to take the watey from
their relief came. Now the shore Is piled
with stores. We have come 10 stay
"In the afternoon we moved inland
to shrapnel gully, which is likely to be
our headquarters for some time TO
come. We dug ourselves in in twos
and threes. K, E& .:..,. ....... ..
Allies Masters Of Air ."
THAT evening we saw what to me
was a great sight. From the sea came
an airship Of the Allies. The sight Of
it, moving swiftly and steadily away
up in the sky, filled us with pride aud
confidence, for we are masters Of the
air, on this front, anyhow.
at circled round the enemy's
trenches, which are quite close to our
own, az near As,ten yards at one place.
Fifty thbn1sand sIIl9n were tho airmsn 5
spectators. Machine guns and rifles
opened heavy fire on him, and now and
then small cloud Of white smoke urst
out Of the blue as a shell exploded in
his direction. He kept buzzing a ong
on his course, however, and after drop
ping three bombs, disappeared towards
the sea again. tsi;y Haa
Furious Night Bombardmsnt
"That night a furious bombardmrut
broke out. The copcealed guns in our
valley joined with the guns of the 8 ms
gathered by the shore in Smelling the
enemy. The machine gun and rifle
fire was terrific, and feared my cave
would fall in on me when the earth
shook. g.... .~,..:
awe learned the next day that the
Australians made slight advance I'M
der cover Of that fire. .--s.. ..-.
Engineers are in the trenches work
ing every day. At present we are max
ing a roof on trench within few
yards of the Turks, in order 10 keep mt
bombs, and are placing loopholes for
our infantry to fire from, ~ '. w.
"Bombs lob over us all the time aud
two of our boys were hit while work
ing alongside me. We have the usual
narrow escapes. r. tr %r..st .
Dead Turks and Colonials 8
Dead Turks and Colonials lie tey
feet in front of us, but we dare not Wy
to get them removed. We can hear the
Turks If they talk loud.
| - Each SIDE Is a1ralu 10 smell the
trenches, as If they did their own men
would suffer also.
1.-THE flies are bad just now. God
punish those flies! Our trenches are 81
narrow that their sides are smeared
with the blood of men who have b""r
carried out. If an epidemic broke Out
among the Turks, we would soon get it
being so near.
of our boys captured tn" new
trench the Turkish guns could blow u
to pieces, so we stay in the clinch unit
the others move with or before us, W.
mine under them, and they may be min
ing under US to blow us up, for all w
, know. ,., ,;,;ti,4
"The weather at present is perfect
, and the climate very much like that o
Honolulu