Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-07
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The handing of the masses of troops within a limited area probably was the most complicated ever undertaken and military men are not surprised that some important details failed to work as planned.
 causes Of Failure The suvla Bay landing failed to ac- complish its object, the report shows, partly because the force consisted largely of untried troops. under gem erals inexperienced in the new war; fare and partly through the failure Of the water supply. The slfrerings of the troops for lack Of water make painful reading
 Praises Bravery of Men,
 General Hamilton beHtows the high est possible praise upon the bravery of the men, He believes that after the middle Of August the Turks outnum bered the British and had plenty of fresh soldiers and munitions while the British government was unable to fur nieh him with the reinforcements he wanted. The general strongly opposed the abandonment of any of the bases held by the British troops.
 General Hamilton's report, which was submitted to Field Marshal Earl Kitchener, secretary of state for war, carries the story of the Dardanelles operations up to mid October, when he
 
 ing his retirement, General Hamilton reports:
 Resented His Recall.
 "On the 11th of October, your lord ship cabled asking me for an estimate of the losses which would be involved In the evacuation of the peninsula. I replied in terms showing that such a step was to me unthinlable. On the 18th of October received a cable re- calling me to London for the reason, was informed by your lordship on my arrival, that His Majesty's govern ment desired fresh. unbiased opinion from responsible commander. on the question of early evacuation"
 The most. stirring passages of the document described the iN-fated land ing at Suvla Bay and AnZac early in August for securing command of the heights on the middle of the benin sula and cutting off from their base the Turkish forces at the lower ex- tremity where the allied armies made their first landing.
 Climax of Operations.
 This operation began on August 9th The climax was reached at daybreak on the 10th, when the Turks made grand attack from the summit of Chunnuk Bair HtII, upon a short front held by two battaiions of the Sixth North Lancashire and the Fifth Wilt shire regiments which General Hamil-
  bers, though not in spirit.
 First our men were shelled by every enemy gun," he says, then assaulted by huge column consisting of no less than a full division plus three bat talions The North Lancashire men were simply overwhelmed in their shallow trenches by sheer weight of numbers, while the Wiltshires, who were caught out in the open, were literally almost annihilated.
 Ponderous Mass Of Enemy.
 sThe ponderous mass of the enemy swept over the crest and swarmed round the Hampshires and General Baldwfn's brigade, which had to give ground, and were only extricated with great difficulty and very heavy losses.
 Now it was our turn. The warships and the New Zealand and Australian artillery, Indian mountain artillery brigade and the e9th brigade, Royal Field artillery, were getting the chance Of a lifetime. As successive solid lines of Turks topped the crest of the. ridge, gaps were torn through their forma- ton and an iron rain fell on them as they tried to reform in the gullies.
 Turks Paid Dearly for Recapture.
 Mot here only did the Turks pay dearly for their recapture of the vital crest. Enemy achievements continued to move up under heavy and accur- ate fire from our guns. Still they kept topping the ridges and pouring down the western slopes of Chunnuk Bair as if determined to gain everything they had lost. But once they were over the crest they became exposed not only to the full blast of the guns, naval and military, but a battery of ten New Zealand machine guns, which played upon their serried ranks at close range until their barrels were red hot.
 1 or the swarms which had once fairly crossed the crest line only a handful ever struggled back to their own side of Chunk Bair.
 Climax of Deadly Conflict.
 At the same time, strong forces of the enemy were hurled against the spurs to the northeast, where there arose conflict so deadly that 1t may be considered the climax of four days fighting for the ridge. Portions of our line were pierced and the troops were driven clean down the hill. At the foot of the hill the men who were su- pervising the transport of food and water were rallied by Staff Captain Street Unhesitatingly, they followed him back, where they lunged again into the midst of that series of strug- gles, in which generals fought in the ranks and men dropped their scien- tif1c weapons and caught one another by the throat.
 Many Deeds of Daring.
 The Turks came on again and again. Fighting magniflcently and calling upon the name of God, our men stood to 1t and maintained by many deed of daring the old tradi- tions of their race. There was no f1inching; they died in the ranks where they stood. Here Generals Cayley, Baldwin and Cooper and all their gal lant men achieved great glory. On this bloody field fell Brigadier General Baldwin. who earned his first laurels on Caesars camp at Ladysmith. There, too, fell Brigadier General Cooper, badly wounded.
 No Live Turks Left.
 Toward this supreme struggle the absolute last two battalions from the general reserve were now hurried, but by 10 in the morning the effort of the enemy was spent. Soon their shatter- ed remnants began to trickle back, leaving a track of corpses behind them. By night, except for prisoners or wounded, no live Turk was left on our side of the slope"