The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-09
TURKISH LEADER SEES SUCCESS IN
 GALLIPOLI FIGHT

GalHpoIi, General Headquarters) June 14-There. are no secrets around here. You can go anywhere you please,' said Field Marshal Li- man von Sanders Pacha, to the Asso- ciated Press correspondent. when the latter presented his credentials and asked for permission to visit the front
 ''I may add that the military situa- tion is most favorable for uss'' he con tnued. ."We intend driving the British out of Ari Burnt, before long. But we are in no hurry because we can achieve that without making the sacri- fees which might still be necessary to get rid of the enenay.''
 The supreme commander. of the Turkish forces on the Ga.11ipo1i Pen; inSu1a is a man somewhat advanced in years, but renaa arkably well pre- served. He is about six feet tall; and well proportioned in body; there is a soft quality in the lines of his face and the expression of. his eye. Liman Pacha came to Turkey in the summer of 1913 to assist, as head of the Ger man military mission, in the reorgan
 ization of the. Ottoman army. He has been an indefatigfb1e worker in that capacity, and the splendid con duct of the Sultan's troops in this war may be said to be largely due to the reforms instituted eon:. his advice.
 In his conversation with the Asso-
 ciated Press corresp pondent, Liman
 Pacha outlined briefly the course
 which military events on the peninu- la had taken inc the landing in the last week of April. @ 'In forty-nine days. Cthe interview
 occurred oa June 11th) the. Allies
 have done little beside losing ground l steadily said the commander.
 Their offensive collapsed as soon
 as we were able to- counteract their tactics. It must be borne sin mind
 that this happened despite a, superior 1 ity in artillery that left our own arm of that character no chance whatever. | For days. and days the Allied ships
 bomlbarded and searched every part of 1 the peninsula with an artillery fire | as severe and incessant as, on the 1 whole, it was unproduc+ive~ of results favorable to the British and French troops. will say that the moral effect of heavy .bombardment is not l as lasting in the case of Turkish troops. as the Allies may have expect | ed Our brave Ottoman soldiers are not easily frightened by noise, owing l to their splendid nerve-and this is : I war of nerves, a war in which strong
 nerves mean victory
 l Later in the day the corr esp onden
 was given a letter sby LiIpan Pachs
 in which all command CTS at the. iron were requested to permit an inspec . ton of their sectors of the holder On the following day, June 12th. tn
 position at Ari Burnu were visited. But in the Aegean sea two Britis1 cruisers were manoeuverdng when tn,
 r4ae to Ari Burnt began. Since 5:3
 a. m- they had kept up a rather SC 1 were bombardment of certain parts o , the peninsula Passing through tn '1 section under fire it was obvious tha
 indirect Ire, without ~observers,. is waste of anmundtion. The fire. of tn cruisers was purely chance work. N : aeroplane or captive balloon was u , and the heavy shells exploded in tn f open and on the wheat fields. Ninet l were counted and the result achieve I represented by zero,
 VI The tbornbar dment ceased about :; i, m. A little later the Ari Bourne I position was reached, and the iourne : the British troops, which at Ari Burn
 are, exclusively contingents from Au: : traIia and New Zealand.
 Fl The center of the British is Ar Bul ! nu, or Cape Ari, Here a. long o1tt trench has been dug. Behind tn
 outer trench the British have estal : lished a second line of defense, col =. -sisting of two short sectors. Back a the outermoste of these sectors lii q another trench. serving, evidently, as f support to artillery redoubt locate - on the summit of Cape Ari itself. eI This may be called the center of il z BFitiEh position, though the left far Tt Of the British cunaists of a single sho 1. trench on a hill about 400 yards noTd It of the extreme point of the northel ~ sector.
 The British right flank, or southel n cries of entrenchments. is located ( d the southeast of the. Korkou-ere e creek and follows the course of . n advanced. trench and two supporti1 h sectors.
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