Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-01-18
Concludes Diary Just Before
Charge, With His viii Leav-
ing Everything to His
Father .
BY ROBERT MouNrsIER,
Copyright. 1915. by the Newspaper En-


terprise Association.)
CoNsTANTINoPLE Dec. 1S.-(By
Nail )-This is a story of Lieutenant x.
q German officer who only few weeks
ago sat in the German bar in Constan-
tinople drinking French liqueurs TO his
kaiser. and of wilfred Hayes, private
in the Sixth battalion of the Manches-
tiers, who died for his king and country
and now lies In an unmarked grave on
Gallipoli peninsula.
One evening 1 sat in the Stadtgarten
der Petits Champs, watching German
dancer. Al a table near by sat a German
officer. Presently he stepped over to
my chair.
you are an American journalist. are
you notG' he asked.
EYES," said.
81 have something you wiz want to
see," he began with Teutonic directness,
perhaps to possess"
"what?" 1 asked, curious.
1.-THE diary of an English soldier" he
replied. 81 came by 1t last June in
Gallipoli before coming to rid myself of
fever"
He handed me little black-covered
notebook, still bearing traces of mud
from the trenches, it's penciled writing
dim and hurried.
How did you get tt?" asked him.
ZACH, took it off the body Of a dead
Englishman."
WELL" I said, deliberately avoiding
his drift, do you mean you would like
to have Il reach the mans famlly?" If
you do, shall be glad to get it to them
if 1 can get it out of Turkey"
But 1 didn't mean that" he burst
out explosively. 81 thought you would
want to buy it Certainly there has
never been anything like it printed in
America"
WANTED THE MONEY.
! "But II you don't want it to get TO
the mans family" I put in, why don't
you yourself wish to keep It as a SOU
venirT'
"Oh, would sell 1t for four pounds.
/ can get another. There is an enorm-
GUS pile of these diaries and personal
papers at headquarters" ....es.
81 will let 1t go for three pounds,
Lieutenant X said finally and 1 accepted,
promising, however. to keep his name
secret.
| How TO get il out of Turkey was now
the problem. for Turkey, too, has its
censors. Nevertheless the diary is now
in the home of wilfred Hayes in Little
boro, England, where it is not for sale
for three pounds.
The dead men whose last words are
4 at headquarters in Gallipoli tell their
tales only to the unsympathetic ears of
the Turkish and German officers.
But the story of Wilfred Hayes,
through the accident Of my meeting with
Lieutenant X, has reached not only
those for whom 1t was intended, but is
to have a wider hearing here.
DIARY IN THE GALLIPoLI PENN
SULA.
Private w. Hayes, Abbaccia Barracks,
Cairo, Egypt.
Active service from May 8.
May s. Entrained for Alexandria. Ar
rived Alexandria $50. Went on board
ship bound for Dardanelles.
May s. Arrived at Cape Ellis en-
trance to narrows. anchored and watched
the warships firing at the Turkish forts.
Move off on May to reserve trenches.
| May s. Move to left flank and go
| into action with Turks.
! May 8. Went in support trenches and
bullets flying about. (Our platoon)
Lieutenant and three men hit with stray
bullets.
May 10. In support trenches, shrap-
mel flying about all over, not much rifle
I fire. Heavy cannonade by artillery.
Four men in our battalion killed, several
wounded. Food-biscuits, bully beef,
bacon, cheese, jam.
May 10. Made communication trench
to Eighth battalion through woods. One
man wounded in arm digging under fire
| from Turkish snipers. Our artillery
Smelling village in front; issued with
cigarettes. Dying for a smoke from
one cigarette complete and got it at
| last.
May 10. Stand to our rifles at dawn.
! Turks make an attack, we drive them
back with heavy rifle fire. Our section
allowed to go in reserve trenches after
being i'm firing line three days and three
| nights. Not had a shave for week.
Getting very good food, cooking it all
ourselves. Had no sleep for three
nights, so now I will have rest before
! tea.
May 16, $50. Heavy firing from our
lines. Turks advancing I'm fifties prepare
to fire-fire in volleys every man fifteen
rounds per man.
| May IS. About midnight the Turks adj
| vanced, and then we let drive all to-
/ gether and drove them back.
May 20. Turks advance on wood in
early morn. Royal Scots send them
back. Terrible hot day, too hot to move
hardly.
May %. A~little firing. nothing to