Bisbee daily review., 1915-05-09
SHIPS PASSED SUEz
 WHILE BIG BATTLE
 WAS BEING FOUGHT
Two Ships Pass Through the Suez Canal and Have Pano- rama of Engagement. Best View That Could Have Been Had.

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 CAIRO. May S-There were two steamers bound from England to In- dia which passed through the Suez Canal while the attack by the Turkish troops was actually in progress. One of these carried considerable num- Der of passengers who were privileged to get a more complete panoramic view of biz battle field than has probably been the good fortune of non. military observers in any other 6eld of action They not only saw frag- ments of the repulsed Turks lt Kin tara. but also the advance of British troops into the desert in their true wide tanking movement further down the canal
 A letter from one Of these pas sengers says in part:
 "A few minutes after we lclt Port Said a notice was sent around that passengers were to keep to the port decks as Turkish snipers were at work on the north side 5i the canal
 For the first ten miles all the low lying land had been flooded but from there onward we commenced to see troops eutrenched Every tenth mile was camp, and about every hun dred yards between were small trenches containing about dozen ln- dians Further up the troops were mostly New Zealanders and Aususli- ans
 About the thirtieth mile we pass ' ed the Indian marine cruiser liar dinee and here was our first evidence of there having been a fight for her funnel was gone an the way down ! one side. and the other side was rid | died with bullets and her bridge gone. b Ol course ships iu the canal pass | within few feet of each other, SO we 7 could see everything Her captain and lpilot, who were on the bridge at the time. were killed, and about sixteen others were wounded
 From this time on We passed sev- eral warships. and troops were on both sides of the canal. We amused ' ourselves by throwing tins Of cigar cites out to them We cleared all the cigarettes from the bar
 All this time we were going at s eight miles an hour which is three S miles more then the speed limit SO ' it was evident that they wanted Co get us trough he canal as quickly as pos d sible.
 "At the fortieth mile the men in the IH ...I.. a,IH la H.srt D engaged with the enemy on the pre- yious day. and that the Turks were now about eight miles off l went mp on the deck and saw troops in the dis tance. but could not say whether they were Turks or not From the forty. T second mile the banks Of the canal are high and could not see any great distance, except between occa- sioual gaps
 But at the forty-siNth mile ] saw t dead horse. half on the bank and s half in the water and little further r. dead camel Then the excitement q began First one dead Turk was seen
 then two then a batch of seven or
 eight. and at the forty-seyenth mile
 a crowd ol them, with a number oi ! broken small boats, full Of dead, sim ! ply smashed to pieces, same hanging J over the side with le geone, others
 without an arm. and some you could
 not recognize as men at all Just 2 here the banks are quite high, but , they slope down to the water. and on
 these slopes were dead Turks in al a sorts of positions Some had fallen .f with their heads and shoulders just , in the water. l climber mp in the rig
 sinu Co see what was over the top of s the bank and there l saw almost hdn q dreds
 "lt appeared that the Turks were
 seen coming, and the warships in tho
 canal allowed them to throw a pom
 toon alross. When they were an gath
 cred at this spot the warships let fly
 They had to netire after losing several
 of their guns This place was Kin
 tara a few miles fro mthe Bitter B Lakes. The battle occurred on the pre- ,ious day
 "On arrival at the Lakes we anchor
 ed for the night with an lights out and a among about thirty other ships
 "Fiehlmg was going on all night
 a little further mp the canal and we
 thought we should be held up in the
 Lakes, but we started of the nexi
 morning. with our bridge and oeck
 protected by sand bags
 Prom here Co Suez we passed camp
 after camp of soldiers Most of them
 had been in action. The Turks were
 about eight miles away
 "A little further on we heard the
 guns and saw the British troops moy
 Ing off othe attack The battle was
 quite a distance inland ! could sec IT the smoke fro mthe guns through my g glasses There were some low sand
 hills about five miles away, and y could see men on this ridge m, ll British had several thousand men ana ,s six guns marching over the nai Do ground for this ridge
 is "l don't suppose many people have ,s had or will have the chance that VI, ir had to go straight through the mid
 de Of a battlefield, before they have 'IE |s.f. at TsufI