Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1916-03-01
NEW GLORY WON
BY BRITISH IN
LEAVING ANzAC
Antipodeans' Deeds of Arms
RivaIed by the Marvel of
Their Retirement.
STORY OF Hateful NIGHT
Thrills of the Passing Hours Told by
Anxious Correspondent Watching
From Ship-"AlI OFF" Comes
Word at AIS a. m.-Gun-
fire Bluffs Moslems.

Sydney, Australia-Rigid censorship
has withheld the story of how the Aus
tralian and New Zealand troops quit
ted the Gallipoli peninsula, but now
with the few other correspondents,
privileged to witness that wonderful
piece of work, Captain Bean, the OIL
cial press representative, has de-
scribed in telling phrases much of what
was done.
Cabling from Anzac bay under date
of December 10, Captain Bean says:
"The movement, which at this mo-
ment is going on, is the one which,
from the day of landing, everyone here
has most dreaded. l heard it said on
the day of landing, and it has been
commonplace ever since, that although
the experiences of landing were bad
enough, one thing would be worse, and
that was if it ever fell to our lot to
have to get off again.
"One read in the papers speeches
by members of parliament asking light
heartedly why the forces were not
withdrawn from the Dardanelles, as If
the process was merely one of picking
up baggage and walking off. People
talking like that, one knew, could not
have the slightest conception of the
conditions under which we have been
holding on for eight months at Amaze.
At Mercy of Turks.
Did they realize that the main
beach, from which almost all the work
of supplying Anzac had to be done,
was within 900 yards of the main CEN
ter and pivot of the whole Turkish
line; that if the Turks could fight their
way 800 yards they would reach the
edge of the cliff, from which they
would be able to look down, as from
the gallery of theater, upon the mar
row fat, containing nearly all our
stores, the ordnance depot, and all the
paraphernalia for landing and embark
alton? Six hundred yards below them
would be the north beach itself-that
is, the beach just north of Ari Burnu
Point, with three of our five landing
stages, and the solitary sunken tramp
steamer which served us for a break
water.
Just south of Ari Burnu Point in
AnZac cove is 'Watson's Pier built
by the Australian signalers soon after
the landing. But this so-called pier is
within sight of Gaba Tepe promontory
and the enemy can see it so we'll that
the guns of their batteries to the south
of us can put shell on any part of that
beach at any moment they wish as
easily as you can strike any letter on
your typewriter. There are IA guns in
those particular batteries-they all go
by the name of 'Beachy Bill-and
they had made 'Watson's Pier and
Anzac beach easily the most unsafe
places on the peninsula.
The only chance is to get the troops
away without the enemy, of whom
there are $4,000 at Anzac and Suvla
having a suspicion of it. The North
beach is better hidden than 'Watsons'
The enemy cannot actually see the
ground around the landing point, but
there is an off-shoot from the main
ridge to the north, from which he
could look over our inner ridge and
into Ari Burnu Poiat, and half of the
North beach. 1t was known as Shippers
Nest because he habitually sniped
from there at night with a machine
gun. From 'Sniper's Nest he can just
see the tip of one landing step and all
boats moving to or fro from them. In
deed, he keeps a careful list of all sea
traffic. Suvla is even more open to
shell fire, but at several miles distance
from the nearest Turkish observer.
Complete secrecy is the only meth
cd of preventing the most terrible con-
ditions on the beach"
Departure Made in Moonlight.
Captain Bean here plunges into his
account of the actual retirement in
this language:
The moon is just beginning to flood
sea and land with light so clear that
you can scarcely notice the change
from twilight into night. The bright
ness of the moon is one of our chief
anxieties, for if the enemy sees what
we are doing and attacks during GER
tain stages of the embarkation before
tonight is over, then nothing can pre-
vent one OF the most Sanguinary and
desperate fights in history. But at
present, although everyone's nerves
are on edge with the proximity of the
constant possibility of great tragedy,
there is nothing whatever in the gray
shape of land there (the correspondent
is on a cruiser) to hint at what is 60
ing forward.
L know that as matter of fact GER
tain movements of troops have been
taking place during the last half hour.
which if carelessly carried out would
result in the discovery of our plan
But looking on with all the apprehen-
sion in the world one cannot make out
the least difference in the scene"
The captain proceeds:
ION deck again. Time, ten minutes