The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-08-13

and the landscape of the peninsula,
were it a sentiment being. would
know it. The. peninsula gives the i'm
preston of pest of very large and
| exceedingly active moles having Wis
| tied it-together with violent earth
quake. Seen from an elevation, locat-
ed anywhere, the hills, slopes and
narrow valleys appear to have broken
out in a sort of bad rash.
Daily the rash increases. A few
| DAYS ago The Associated Press cor
| respondent was walked at Sis a. m.
by having a shell explode inconven-
| iently close-through the canvass
wall of the tent in which he slept, or
had slept until that moment. Other
shells came and before the British
cruiser deigned to be silent over so
| shots had landed both far from and
near to, the tent. But by that time
the correspondent lay snug in bomb
proof
If it isn't artillery that spoils the
Gallipoli landscape it is the busy
aeroplanists bomb. The Allies have
many flyers and all of them are bent
upon making life on the peninsula
as precarious as possible Every day
these bids of i'll omen come, and
they all throw bombs, some explode
with one bang, others do the trick in
three installments-in a sort of rip
striking lightning poor imitation, OF
what man can do in that line. pei
The hole left by the aerial bomb is
not large. But the landscape suffers
nevertheless. Everything within a
generous radius of the explosion goes
down. The grass vanishes under the
hot whitening BREATH and bush and
tree are snapped like so many dry
twigs.
|
the Turks pay no heed-for good rea-
sons. The bombardments are carried
on from so long a range that Turk
ish batteries cannot reach these dis
turbers of the idyllic peace, but the
laerOplane can be given at least lit
I tie attention. The hum of its motor
is hardly heard when certain batteries
get ready But to get an aeroplane
down is largely accident, and the avi-
atOr knows it. So on he sails and
just to return compliments he drops
bomb when he imagines he is over
the offending battery-which he hard
ly ever is, according to two weeks eX-
perience of The Associated Press cor
respondent.
What goes in the air must come
Fmakes no exception, even in the case
Of shrapnel. So if the bomb of the
aviator has missed you, the fragments
lof the shrapnel may not. 1t takes
Turkish nerves to stand a sojourn on
the peninsula for any length of time.
The Turks do not seem to mind the
combination, in reality do not mind it
] at all. Their fatalism is splendid
: thing under such conditions. If
] "Kadir" the supreme fate, wills death
/, by any means enumerated, then, "ka-
2 der willed it thus, so they reason
S is a good thing they admit. But fate
: may reach anywhere, even in bomb
s proof. So what is the use of a bomb
: proof? Lately, however, the men have
been cOnsiderate enough of their for
: tune of war to observe the progress of
1 the yellow birds from under the trees.
, Splendid summer weather prevails
+ on the peninsula. The sun is hot
2 enough but the proximity of two
. large bodies of water keeps the
1 breeze stirring. There are alternate
: spills of wind to the Black Sea and
} wind to the Mediterranean. 1t is cool
2 even in the middle of the day under
t the pines and expresses, though the
: shade of the latter is scant thing
l and to keep in it one must keep shift
: ing every few minutes. The slender
5 fcypress of these parts serves better
5 as the column of a sundial than a
parasol. The pine is better, and in
/ addition has the admirable quality of
g,t-