Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-09

70 be brought from the adjacent islands
The Turkish trenches are IN one case
only two yards from the British trench.
At another point the trenches OF the OPP
posing forces are only ten yards apart
Constant sapping by the Turks is the
cause OF this interesting condition
Already the British trenches have been
blown up by the Turks in three places
Hand grenades and large bombs thrown
by a oatapult are used by the British
one OF the former had failed to explode
and was the subject OF study OF some
Turkish officers. The bomb consisted
OF a cast-steel outer shell, two and one
half inches in diameter and about six
inches long. The shell contained an inner
tube filled with an explosive.
About noon Essad Pasha. commander
OF the third army. and during the late
Balkan war, defender Of Janina, was met
by the correspondent. General Essad is
man of medium height, slightly gray
about the temples, of dlgnified. military
appearance and courteous demeanor.
1.-THE situation here at Arr Bournou
and sid-el-Bahr is very favorable" he
said. THE British and French have been
obliged to assume the defensive, which.
should say, is not what they landed
for. We hope 20 get them out and be-
fore long. The allies have come to re-
spect the bayonts of our soldiers"
Bayonet Charges.
Essad Pasha then recounted what some
OF the British prisoners thought of the
mighty bayonet charges by the Turks.
Most of them did not like the experience.
in men rushing a trench silently with
bayonets fixed. Noise has stimulat-
ing effect at times, while its absence
acts in an opposite direction" he said.
The afternoon was made interesting by
a visit from British aeroplsne. which
dropped three large bombs
Throughout the day the snipinE from
both trenches continued. A Turkish bat
terry on the British left flank added to
the picture by taking a pot shot at some
part OF the opponents trenches The
British pieces on land did not reply for
some time, but finally were also heard
from. No British OF French men-of-war
could be seen near Kaba Tepe, their
former station. A single hospital ship,
painted gray, lay off shore. The allied
war vessels had been driven TO cover
by the German submarines, opined the
Turkish officer, and then pointed in the
direction OF Imbros island. With the
aid OF glasses a good view of the north
east bay OF the island was to be had
The small sheet of water was literally
covered with shipping OF all sorts. mem
of-war, transports, supply ships. every
conceivable sort OF watercraft in fact
had been damned into the small bay,
outside OF which torpedo boats and de.
stroyers were patroling for submarines.
British Plans Fall.
The Gallipoli campaign plan Of the al
lies. according to officers Of the Otto
man army. was TO take the forts guard
ing the entrance and lower reaches of
the Dardanelles. For this purpose land
ings were made at Kun Kale, sid-el-
Bahr. Arr Bournou and Kaba Tepe.
Essad Pasha il of the opinion that
Of these only Kaba Tepe was a feint,
insisting at the same time the assertion
of the allies that the Kun Kale landing
had also been a sham manoeuvre is due
to the fact that the allied troops could
not keep the ground they had taken
there. The landing at Arr Bournou was
intended as flank attack upon the Otto
man forces opposing the allied troops
set ashore at sid-el-Bahr. BY occupying
the narrow part of the peninsula between
Ai Bournou and Maidos, the Australians