Bisbee daily review., 1915-12-16
DECLARES GREATEST
BATTLE IN HISTORY
NOW LIKE JOY RIDE
English Officer Says American
Civil Wars Memorable Battle
War Mild as Compared With
Seddul-Bahr; Praises Turks.

/ LONDON-"Our school books told
us that the bloodiest battle in history
was that between the Confederates
and Federals at Sharpsburg during
the American Civil War. when one
third of all the men engaged were left
on the field But Sharpsburg was q
.ioy-ride compared with Seddul-Bahr.'
Thus begins an account of the Calf
poll venture by Lieutenant-Comman
or Josiah Wedgewood. the Liberal
4 member of Parliament who has made
the House of Commons ring with criti-
cism of the Dardanelles campaign
since he returned with special men
tion for bravery and the coveted
striped ribbon of the D. S. o. (Distin-
guished Service Order) at his breast.
He pays a splendid tribute to the
Turk. "The Turks are the finest
| fighters i'm the world. save only the
J Canadians and Australians" And a.
gain "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
a burst of fire would come Then and
afterwards I found them extraordinar-
| lily merciful as compared with the en-
envy i'm Flanders.
Only once in his story does he men
ton battlefield atrocities, and then, he
says the deeds were blamed. not on
the Turks but on two foreign officers
who were with them. "The two Off
GERS" he remarks. "were captured and
/ killed. These fends. it appears had
. nstigated the things done TO those dy-
ing rishmen. and We never afterward
found similar Turkish atrocities
Lieut. Commander Wedgewood'
first view of lighting i'm the Dardanel-
/ les zone was at the so-called V-beach.
where the now steamship River
! clyde was run aground TO furnish
cover for the attempted landing
This old Wooden Horse Of Troy d"
narrates Mr. Wedgewood "vas run
ashore ON hawless Sunday morning
400 yards from the medieval castle of
/ Seddul-Bahr never noticed the
/ grounding, for the horror I'm the water.
on the beach Five lows of five boats
each loaded with men. were going a.
shore alongside of us One moment it
had been early morning in a peaceful
country with thoughts or smells OF
COWS and hay and milk. and the next
while the boats were just twenty
Yards from shore. the blue sea around
each boat was turning red is there
men vading through water wai-l-high
under heavy free You see where
each bullet hits the water which. like
a nightmare holds back tine man for
/ the next shot which viii not miss OF
Ian those brave men. two-thirds died.
/ and hardly dozen reached mwound-
ed the shelter of the dve-foot sand
dune
about nine O'Clock dash across
The row of LIGHTERS from the Wooden
Horse was led by General Napier and
his brigade-maior Would they ever
get TO the end of the lighters and
Jump into the sheltering water2 No;
side bv side they sat down ON the en-
aiue caamiug For one moment one
Though they u.aht Joe taking cover;
then their leas slid out and they roll
cd over.
aIt was the MINISTER'S that charged
first with 81 sprir of shamrock on
their caps. then the Dublns. the Wor-
cesters. tine Hampshres Lying on
the beach on the rocks. on the light
ers. they cried on the Mother OF God.
! Ever when Z looked ashore / saw five
Ministers. They at some moment had
cot ashore: they had been told off TO
eIt the wire entaurIements; they had
'lef the shelter of the bank. charged
fifteen yards 10 the wire, and there
they lay i'm row al two yard interval.
one could hardly believe them dead.
Ian the time great shells kept hitting
the shivering ship and doing slaugh-
Tier i'm the packed holds These shells
were fired from Asia. but it was the
maxims and pom-poms in Seddul-Bahr
and on the amphitheatre that kept our
heads down below the bulwarks and
.boilerpIate. There. now. was Mid
| slipmau Drury swimming 90 the light
or which had broken loose. with "a line
i'm his mouth and a wound i'm his head.
tlf ever boy deserved his v. c. that
lad did. And there was the captain Of