Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-23

this time an unwounded Australian
was coming up the trench from behind
the Turk. That sealed the mans fate
lie was bayoneted from behind and
Defore at the same moment and a
shot from q third man also hit him.
He fell dead on to the narrow floor
OF the trench. His comrades had run
away believe they scattered in front
of our bombs.
The Iron Crescent
ON the breast of the brave man.
who lay there dead in the bottom of
tne trehch, our men noticed a little
strip of bright color. It was a couple
inches Of ribbon twisted through his
puttonhole-a bright cherry-colored
RIBBON with q narrow white stripe
near either edge of it. It was redder
with his blood. but there was no mis-
taking its identity.
1t was the ribbon of the Iron Cres
cent. 1t is the first time anyone here
mas seen it. The Turks have insti
tuteu-or the Germans have instituted
iof them-a decoration on the pat-
tern OF the German iron cross, except
lhat IN the Turkish order the ribbon is
fed instead of black. and the medal is
a crescent instead of cross. This was
the first Turk we have come acroes
VINO had gained one. He was clearly
CHOSEN to lead this exceptionally dar-
ing reconnaissance on account of the
bravery which won him the cross ON
some former occasion. And the deed
Whlch ne performed on this occasion
Nc, mas as praVe as any man could do.
Inc turks, who are quite as we'll
aware of any difficulties that there
may De IN our position here during the
winter as we are ourselves, and who
nave read all the discussions in par
llament and the London papers as to
whether we should hold on here or
leaVe the peninsula, have for the mast
two weeks been constantly feeling at az
nlsht, to see whether our trenches
were any less strongly held. They
nave trled all along the line-and the
place where they tried first. with one
exception, was Quinns. Obviously to
lead the attempt from so deadly a post
as 'eulnns they chose this brave man
III is SAID that at one time the Turks
mad to offer noncommissioned rank to
every man who went into the Turkish
Qulnns trenches. II ever a man de-
served an honor, this man did
=, Inc people who have seen that If
tle strip of red ribbon and who have
seen the sort of deed that gained it
that is to say the only peopIe whose
opinion on the subject is worth anv-
thlnS-do not laugh at the iron cres-
cent any more than they would at
the grave of General Gordon or Joan
OF Arc. The war is no more likelv to
ne won by sneering at iron crescents
IidI xlian py the Germans making fun of
victoria crosses; the great deed that
mas been done is not in the least al
tfed by the fact that some peonIe arc
100 ignorant to recognize il or resnect
IL: There is a foolish type of criticism
Whlch we have seen in some newspa-
pers which seems to wonder whether
we can fight the Turks as we'll as we
otherwise should when the troops in
the peninsula SO obviously do not hate
them. One might ask these neonia
how much better they expect no 10
fight anyway. But it is sufficient fo
wonder since when has it been inn
possible Tor the British race to fight
an enemy IL 1t respects him.
To Our Dear Enemy
For very assuredly the same inca
pacity, IN that case, must affect the
turks as well as the Australians and
New Zealanders. Some curious incf-
dents which happened few weeks
ago help to prove this
Il think the Turks are celebrating
either feast or fast. Anyway. near
daypreak one morning. there came out
OF thelr trenches at Quinns a packet
ued to string, thrown so that II
lobbed near our parapet and lay out
side between the trenches. or course
our sentries waited for it to explode
or fizz or burst into smoke or for some
such devilry. The sergeant near il
looked at it very carefully through a
periscope. While he was looking
Turkish hands must have come up and
waved and then cautious head. A
head on our side went up too and
gradually line of heads or each
parapet; and before the sergeant knew
what was happening the man next
him had climhe up on to the parapet
and stepped round the netting and into
the deadly area between the trenches
and was bringing back the pac1xet
1T was a small packet OF cigarets
And in 1t scrawled in indeIible pencil
a"d in h"d'N snellHd French We're the
words, "A Notre Herox ennemis.' ITO
our heroic enemies
"Of course some return had to be