Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-09

guns and infantry opened fire upon
them.
All four of the Texans were in this
fight. and when night came were among
the % of their battalion of S92 men
to answer roll call. The slaughter OF
the allies had been horrible, but the
subsequently increased to 100000 men,
would have been entirely successful
and Constantinople would have fallen,
but that Turkish force greater in
number, well equipped and provided
with many machine guns, was prepared
to meet them at the one possible place
where landing could be made.
In the fighting which followed the
Texans bore their part in the suicide
bunch. but the two others. Smith and
Dunbar, came to a soldiers end.
There the fighting continued without
favorable result until the following
December. The experiences of the Tex
as remnant were frightful. but no
were suffering. The climate, usually
delightful. frowned upon them. The
heat poured upon them and clouds OF
flies bearing pestilence made life un-
endurable. Provisions ran so low that
the men were put on half rations-four
hard biscuits and a can of bully beef
day, so greasy that only famished
people could stomach it. Sometimes
the biscuits were soaked in fat, some
times in water with little tea in it.
daily allowance for all purposes was
only a pint After satisfying their
thirst bath tubs were not in demand.
Pettitt was wounded again, but his
superb physique carried him through
siege in the hospital at Cairo. and
in less than a month he was back at
his old machine gun job.
Then. with the early winter, the
weather became bitterly cold, and be-
tween poor food and pestilence on one
hand and hard fighting on the other
the casualties increased so rapidly that
the total loss of the allies reached
100000 men.
Then Lord Kitchener came-that
dark. silent man. calm and just. whom
the soldiers trusted.
L saw him." said Haney, land he
was a man. He soon knew that the
game was not worth the candle and
directed that the place be evacuated.
If his order had been obeyed prompt
ly many lives would have been saved,
but the English do not like to quit"
The Gloucestershires were among the
last troops to leave Gallipoli, and it
was unfortunate for Pettitt that they
had not started few days earlier. for
just bcloE6 lHey lelt d DiS SHcii uIoP.
ped upon the parapet. killed and
wounded several men and threw four
teen big sandbags over him, crushing
his legs and feet. They carried him
to a hospital. where the doctors. after
ripping off his frozen clothing. patched
him up as well as they could.
He went through a course of hospi-
tai treatment. passing from one to an
other. and finally fetched up in Eng
land at the same hospital where his
wife had hidden him goodbye and
where she was still nursing the wound
ed. His ankle was giving him so much
trouble that he was pronounced UNIT
for active service and was honorably
discharged
Texan that he is. when the reports Of
on the border reached him he
felt the call to the old Dallas machine
gun company, and chance of job
on a yacht bound for New York look
ed very good to him.
Arranging with the nurse wife to
meet him in this country as soon as
her promised time in the hospital had
been served. he seized the chance and
found himself on American soil again.
may be glorious, but the pay