The sun., 1916-01-23

and Dade MIN EOOu-Dy III '""S '
thing should happen to either OF them'
He landed with his men. and IN MS
| description OF the scenes when en-
sued. OF which he has written recently
| in a letter to New York priest.
We can well realize the terrible danger
Father Finn was facing:
1T was 4:3O a. NJ. and there was 9
faint glimmer Of dawn in the eastern
sky. The destroyer next to us began
, to man her boats and suddenly inferno
broke loose from shore. Such fear
| ful hail OF bullets from rifle. machine
gun and shrapnel as passes all imagi-
nation, 1t was appalling.
There was no cover. We were
hacked 80 closely together that one
bullet would wound or kill three men,
and We could not hit back. Tor the
enemy was invisible. The bullets were
dancing of the tunnels and upper
parts Of the destroyers. The order
was given us to maj the boats and
| We tumbled in as fast as possible and
pushed of for the shore.
1T was only 800 yards away. but to
me II seemed miles and to have taken
hours to reach. There was dreadful
slaughter in the boats. l could then
see only what was happening in my
own. First the COX was shot. then
an oarsman fell dead across my feet
then a bullet came through the boat
/ and grazed the puttee on my leg: then
another OF the men collapsed without
a sound. and We knew that he was
| dead. and so on. 1t was horrible. |
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alive.
There was only one anxiety among
| the men-to reach the shore and rush
the Turks with the bayonet. After
what seemed like endless hours the
boat touched bottom about twenty
yards from the bench As 7 Jumped
up to get out a bulle. went through
the sleeve OF my jacket AMI caught
the lad behind me. \ shrapnei
splashed a mans brains over me. An-
other caught the gunwale of the boat
between my knees as / was getting
out and nearly blinded me with spllnt-
! ers.
| II was pushed from behind and fell
into about four feet of wa.er. | went
promptly to the bottom. and being
| ,ions ua,sr bottle ,rd on o,.or,,,,, +,
found tho ntmos, difficuI,v in rising.
I a,mos, ,bouyh, had hoo, .ho,
7 never realized ,uI ,hen bn,v drTi-
cult I, ia m walk ou,,lIy ,br,,,,,b
water dressed.
| Il got on the beach exhausted and
had to lie down among the falling hui
let's to get my breath. | mad made
up my mind by this time that had
but a poor chance OF getting ihrouph
the morning alive Anvbow I ni,lea
up fla, stone and held II N from,
OF my head and II was fortunate I
did so. because a bullet that wou,J
have Drained m. glanced harmIessIv
of it.
| IL moved forward then ,o where tho
tide had made n Little hsnl, aIor, ,ha
shore. All he .o,diers ca,r,. s,,,,
| intrenchinp ,ooI h,, h.,rg r,,,, .,'',,,
hetant had nors ,o,.. 49,, 49,.
with my h, ro a,gars o., ,,, -
sb.,,er IN ,ror, ~, ,
suau In ,,,. Iit. ,o,,
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! me lad on my lett not feeling safe.
raised himself little and began to
dig with his intrenching tool. He was
shot through the heart. The man on
the other side of me go; bullet in
the thigh and was in great pain. I
| pulled him toward me, and living fat
as ! was. cut his trousers open and
put on a dressing. Every soldier car.
ries a little bottle Of iodine and a field
dressing. which can be applied IN a
few minutes.
| II had a look around thor ard SAW,
all the other boats landing Tb.y
were suffering lust as much n. our
boats had suffered Tb, he,ch u.a.
strewn with dead and uoupded r,,n
boats landed about ff,y y,rd, t.,,,
where I was They baId e,,,, CO. .,,,e,'.,
each but ,aly twsnt, came o.hona
altogether Thev camo ,,naa,. 49,. A.,
of n Maxim p,,n which CON ,~,,,,o 80,
about 500 shots a r,inu,o
"Ru, these twenty h,, ,,o,.
venge; they CAPTURED the enr and