The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-10-27
ritorials, who, unable to obtain medi-

ritorials, who, unable to obtain medi-
cal assistance, had become so weak
from dysentary that his comrades had
to abandon him when the Turks took
the trench in which he was station
ed. 1t is said there are many similar
cases. The correspondent saw five of
them. 1t was explained by these
men that the British sanitary service
is so overtaxed that it can not give
attention to every case of sickness
brought to it's notice.
To other handicapS Of the allied
troops must be added the great heat,
and ever-present dust. Of some 130
prisoners the correspondent saw, full
ly one-half suffered from inflamma-
tion of the eyes.
1t can not be said that the troops
recently brought to the peninsula are
first class material. Many Of the
men are too young to. endure the
hardships Of such climate. Trench
digging, under the prevailing condi-
tions, is torture to their still unde-
veloped bodies, leading to painful
disorders.
The prisoners Of war with whom
the correspondent talked had been in
the service from four to eleven
months. Some OF them expressed
dissatisfaction with their officers.
The correspondent witnessed the
total annihilation of company
which had penetrated a Turkish
trench, but was destroyed because its
flank was left uncovered. Whether
this was due to the impulsiveness Of
the men or to the negligence of 9th
ers could not be learned.
When the Associated Press corre-
spondent left the Gallipoi peninsula,
after an eight ?day stay on the front,
the allied troops at Seddul Bahr, on
the tip of the peinsula, had been In
active for more than three weeks.
Their position was no more favorable
than that Of their comrades in the
Aanafarta region, as described in
recent letter.
Field Marshal Eiman Won Sanders,
the German officer in command OF
the Turkish forces, gave his idea Of
the general situation as follows:
81 am too old to be an optimist,
but I belieYe-I am absolutely conf
dent-that unless something extra
ordinary occurs we shall hold the
Allies where they are" The field
marshal is sixty-fTe years old.
So far as concerns the allied forces
at Seddul Bahr, it apparently has
been demonstrated that it is next tc
impossible for them to advance, with
operations conducted within the
range Of reasonable and permissible
sacrifices of men. In other words,
it is still possible to dislodge the
Turks, but to do so would cause too
great a loss to the Allies. On that
front, as at Anafarta, the Turks have
used every means to better their po-
sitions. Though both fields Of action
are small, the Turks have dug hun
dreds of kilometers Of fire line and
communicating trenches.
Ell. Jid Tepe, in the Seddu1 Bahr
region, has been the objective of the
Allies. Heavy -guns- stationed on its
summit, they argued, could easily 81
lence the forts at Tahanak Kale and
Kilid Bahr. A survey of the
ground, however, raises a serious
question whether this theory is cor
rect. The Turks took no chances,
and defended the elevation success
fully.
The landing at Ari Burnu, in the
northern zone, had a twofold pur-
pose. It was the time to threaten
the rear of the Turkish forces at
Euddul Bahr, and also to place the
.Kodjetchemen Dagh at the disposal
of the heavy allied batteries. From
the Kodjatchemen Dagh the works at
Kilid Bahr and Tchanak Kale could
have been bombarded effectively, as
could have been the Kilia and Akbach
bays, now serving as supply bases for
the Turkish forces.
Kodjatcnemen Dagh was occupied
by the British, but lost again. XII
reich Tepe was to serve as a flank
position against possible Turkish at
tacks on the allied lines in and south
of the Anafarta plain. 1t, too, was
taken by. the Turks.
F-om strictly military point of
view, political considerations disre-
garded, the Allies on the peninsula
are in less favorable condition to-
day than they were April 26, when
the first landing took place.
The Turks in the Anafarta region
for the greater part are Anatolian
peasants, sturdy, tough, Injured to
every hardship of war and not plagu-
ed by the nerves Of their higher
strung antagonists: Many of them
are clad in rags, not few are arm
ed with single-shot rifles and most of
them wearing slippers instead OF
shoes. Their food though plain, is
substantial and wholesome and their
water supply is ample.