Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-02-12
INGENIOUS TRICKS WHEN ENGLISH
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Clever Devices Used to Trick Turks Into Believing
 Conditions Normal.

Saloniki, Feb. 11.--Many ingenious tricks to deceive the Turks were 'em- ployed by the alll:s when they evacu ated Gallipoli in the face or the enemy. After they were all gone the illusion of sniping was still kept up.
 At Suvla this was dcne by fixing pisces of candle of different lengths so that they would set off detona- ter which fired the charge. These candle were scattered up and down the trenches, with the result that after they were entirely empty the Turks kept on hearing reports from them at irregular intervals just as on any ordinary night.
 The Australians at Anzac achieved the same effect by wedging rifles into lo1pholes and tying tin to the trig- ger, into which water dripped drop ly drop from another tin, so that when the weight became enough to overcome the trigger pull the rifle would be fired.
 At Suvla-and no doubt Helles toe. -'Et process of evacuation was spread over about ten nights. It was divided into three periods, in the first Of which all the winter stores and sure rfluities were embarked. Then came the stage in which everything was shipped away exc pt the aclual s'cod and ammunition needed for the men, and the first drafts of the latter also began to be put on board.
 The final stage, which at Suvla lasted two nights, was taken up with -mbarking the guns, transport ami mals, and men in carefully calculated detachments.
 At one tine it had been determin- ed to fall back to the second line Of would have given clear warning to the Turks of what was going on, aiid the idea was abandoned in favor of the preservation of absolutely normal conditions.
 This latter motto was so often re- peatad, in fact, that it is said that one overworked staff officer, who re- ceived news during the critical part of the evacuation proceeding that a Laby girl had been born into his hous hold stated it as his intention to telegraph that the child was to be Christened "Normality."
 On the last night, from twilight to 1:3O a. m. the first line trenches were held 'cnly by 15O picked men from :ach brigade. This gave about one rifle to every seven yards of frrnt, but the Eighty=eighth Brigade, which had the whole of the Thirty ninth Divisions front to cover, was responsible for 5000 yards of front with the same number of men.
 There were two lines of trenches behind the first lines, and one or two keeps" just above Suvla Beach as w;ll, for purposes of last stand i, ne ecessary.
 The brigades were about 1,500 strong at evacuati9n, and of these 400 were sent straight down to en- bark at 6 D. m. as soon as it was dark. Another 400 followed at eight. and at the same time third 400 dropped back to the second or third lines of defense where each brigade had already had 150 men since the previous day.
 This l:ft cnly the "last ditchers" in each brgade's front trench. At 1:30 a. m. these last left the trenches, bringing away their maxims and trench mortars, and passed back through the SeCOHQ llHe, WnlcH Was immediately closed up by fitting the gaps that had been left in the wire entangleIens, g careful tally having been kept to see that every man was really in.
 The second line then. fell back through the third to the beach and embarked. When they were clear the third line, who had meanwhile closed up their defences, came away in their turn, and the only force lel, was the f:w men holding the fourth line, consisting of isolated posts above the beach.
 Their orders were that they were not to leave till word reached them from the beach that all was clear. Had the Turks made an infantry at tack these were the men who would have covered the rear-guard. Alto ge ther it was a most skillfully con- bined retirement, and its merit earned the same reward of full suc- cess at Halles and Suvla-Anzac.