The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-21
1000 TURKS slain
CUT TO PIECES IN WORST BAT
TIE OF ENTIRE WAR
BRAVELY CHARGED ALLIES

Ottomans Break French Lines, Cap
ture Gums and Turn Them on Al
lies-Are Beaten Back and Muir
dered by Light of Allied Fleet
Searchlights- Slaughter Terrific.
In a dispatch from Lemnos, vi;
Athens, a correspondent of The Lon
don Daily Chronicle gives an accoun
OF the big battle for the Dardanelle
fought last week, in which the Allie
pushed their lines forward five
eighths of mile.
''The heaviest fighting which ha:
taken place in GalEpoi peninsul.
since the allied forces landed" ht
says, twas that which began late
Tuesday and lasted well into Wednes
day. It resulted in the swing for
ward of the southern line of the al
lied armies for about five furlong:
and in infliction of staggering losse:
on the enemy
Those who were in the battle
place the Turco-German casualties a.
seven thousand killed and tetweer
fourteen thousand and fifteen thou
sand wounded. Many prisoners were
taken, too. The whole army in the
southern part of the peninsula was
engaged, and the Australians anc
New Zealanders further to the north
also played a part.
"The victory marks definite
stage in the initial work of throwing
forces around Atchi Baba, which may
now without exaggeration be describ-
ed as one Of the strongest fortresses
in the world.
"The Allies had been resting in
comparative tranquility, and the
Turks therefore were evidently per.
suaded that they were experiencing a
shortage of ammunition. This be-
lief apparently convinced the Turks
of their excellent opportunity to
drive the invaders Into the sea.
:'It was late Tuesday night whec
the first signs of the enemy's move
ment were detected. No time was
lost in flashing a warning message
to headquarters. The French were
soon alert, and the artillery at that
portion Of the line against which the
attack was obviously being prepared
was. quickly and strongly reinforced.
'sFrench and British machine guns
were rushed to the front till a per-
feet wall of heavy and light guns was
in position. Then there was a short
of silence and waiting, al
most oppressive. Suddenly the still
ness was riven by a tremendous burst
of shells from the Turkish guns, and
for time shrapnel poured down on
the French front, but the men were
safely posted in dugouts, and little
loss was experienced.
From the strait > loud booming
began. It was the battered Goeben
at work again, and during the bonn
bardment she pounded our right with
some forty eleven-inch shells. Many
did not burst; they were apparently
of Turkish manufacture.
"This hail of shells lasted an hour
and a half and was the seyerest bonn
bardment to which our lines had
been subjected during the weeks Of
struggle on the peninsula.
''No sooner had the heavy fire
ceased than great solid masses of
Turks leaped forward to attack. On
they came, the silence unbroken save
for their shouts, until they reached
a point within sixty yards Of the
French position.
"Then from two hundred well
placed machine guns devastating
fire burst from the allied
Rifles joined in-twenty
thousand OF them; big guns flared
and lighted up the lurid scene at in
tervalS. With fine bravery the enemy
came on, not hesitating before this
inferno of death.
"In terribly cut-up condition the
stormers reached the barbed-wire en-
only to find, to their
dismay, that their artillery had been
Ineffective in the attempt to demol-
ish them.
1.-THE slaughter was terrible; yet
at three points the enemy managed
to swarm into the French trenches
and even succeeded in turning some
of the French weapons on the defend
ing troops. The second line. however,
hurled itself instantly on the foe.
"'We were so closely mixed up to-
gether,' one French soldier told me,
that it was almost impossible to use
the bayonet, and we simply had to
push them back with our fists and
the butts of our rifles until they fell
backward into our first line trenches,
giving US room to thrust and clear
the way
Finally after several minutes Of
this desperate work, the Turks, who
we're not adequately supported by
their reserves, broke and ran. Then
came the slaughter, for the machine
guns along the whole line, and the
MaximS OF the British naval division
who had also been engaged. though
not so heavily, simply moved swaths
Of death through the mob of fleeing
lCFhS, VI no NSTS tiSiuhO HieiA SANe+a
ness in the light Of the ships search
lights. turned pitilessly on them.
Firmly held on the enemy were
the ships searchlights, thus provld-
ing a ghastly target for our deadly
guns and hard-worked rifles.
I'm short space Of time the field
presented a. most appalling spectacle.
Soldiers who fought in some OF the
fercest fights in France and Flan-
ders, and who have been through the
terrible experiences provided by the
landing of the Allied forces on the
peninsula. say they sickened at the
awful sight which lay before their
eyes when the dim morning twilight
spread over the scene.
Bodies were lying four and five
deep upon the ground in all posi-
tions. Fallen men lay strewn on the
barbed wire ertanSlements. while
many of the enemy'S dead still stood
erect, propped up against the masses
Of their stricken comrades.
Farther and farther, amid yells
and groans mixed with the shouts
and whistlings OF their officers. the
battered and beaten rabble retreated,