The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-27
Interesting Incidents of the Withdrawal of the Allies Accounted in Related Cor respondence of Men on the Scene.

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 Sydney, Australia, Jan 27-some in- teresting incidents of the last days of the Allied operations the Ga1ltpoh peninsula are reported in delayed cor respondence from the Official Press Representative with the Australian forces at the Dardanelles. He tells or the daring manner in which the Turks sought to learn the extent of the with drawal of the Allied forces, and he pays tribute to the Turk as an enemy.
 -Four days ago. he writes from An zac, without date, ''just as the first light began to broaden into a wintry dawn at seven o'clock in the morning the Australian sentries as they blew their ungloved fingers behind the pa rapets at Quirnz Post saw about thir- ty Turks creeping up from behind the humnocks of broken. earth which sep arate our front trench from that or the Turks. TheiT heads appeared about fifteen yeards away Twenty six of thenn-or thereabouts-were crawling down into a small depres- sion between the trenches where for the moment they were hidden from this part of the line. But the other four came boldly across straight to the center of Quinns trenches. For a particular reason our men let them
 
 the s1anting. wire netting screen set on slopinE Framework which protects our trench from their bombs-the Turks have just such another fifteen it in their hands and pulled two short lengths of it down. They then threw in half a dozen bonn bs-there was a. scatter to each side amongst our men in the trench; and then into the trench jumped the leading Turk
 I,o1 h hi bayonet fixed. He landed on his feet, turned to his right and strode dowrS the trench. Four men were leaning against the wall of the trench wound ed by the bombs He pushed past them and straight into the dark mouth of our bombproof-that is to say "a section of trench with a tight roof Of earth and beams overhead. As he strode into the darkness, just in the mouth of it. sergeant met him. The sergeant was coming the other way. also with his bayonet- The two faced one another in the narrow way. They parried and guarded past. The Turk seized the sergeant's bayonet and the sergeant wrenched it away. But by this time an unwounded Aus traEian was coming up the trench from behind the Turk. That sealed the mans fate. He was bayoneted from behind and before at the same, mo- ment and a shot from a third man al- n. narrow floor of the trench. His conn rades had run saway-I believe they scattered in front of our bombs
 On the breast of the brave man, who lay, there dead sin the bottom of the trench, our men noticed a little inches of ribbon twisted through his buttonhoIeAa bright cherry -colored ribbon with a narrow white strip near either edge of it. It was redder with his blood, but there was no nistaking its identity
 'It was the ribbon of the Iron Cres- cent. It is the first time anyone here has seen it. The Turks have instftut- edAor the Germans have instituted for them a. decoration on the pattern of the German Iron Cross; except that in the Turkish order the ribbon is red instead Of black, and the medal is a. crescent instead of = cross. This was the first Turk we have come across who had gained one. He was clearly chosen to lead this exceptionally dar- bravery wtA5.h won him the cross some former occasion. , And the deed which he performed, on this occasion was as brave as any man could do The Turks, whov are quite as we'll aware of any difficulties that there may be in our position here during the winter we are ourselves, and who have read all the discussions inl Parliament and the London papers as to whether we should hold on here or leave the peninsula, have for fhe past two weeks been constantly feeling at night to see whether our trenches were any less strongly held. They have tried all along the Iine-and the place where they tried first, with one excep- ton was Quinns. Obviously to lead the attempt from so deadly a post as QuinnS they choose this brave man it is said that at one time the Turks had to offer non-commissioned rank to every man who went into the Turkish Quinns trenches. If ever a man de- served an honor, this man did
 FThe people who have seen that lit tie strip of red ribbon and who have seen the sort of deed that gained it. that is to say the only people whose opinion on the subject is worth any thfng-do not laugh at the Iron Cres- cent any more than would. at the grave of General Gordon or Joan of Are The war is no more likely to be won by our sneerfng at Iron Cres- cents than by the GeHnans making fun of Victoria Crosses; the great deed that has been done is not in the least altered by the fact that some people are too ignorant to recognize it or respect 1t. There is a foolish type of criticism which we have seen in some newspapers which seems to wonder whether we can fight the Turks as well as we otherwise should when the troops in the peninsula so obviously do not hate them. One might ask these people how much better they expect us to fight anyway But 1t is sufficient to wonder since when has 1t been impossible for the British race to fight an enemy if it respects him.
 For very assured1y the same inca pac1ty, in that case, must affect the Turks as well as the Australians and New Zea1anders. Some curious incl dents which. happened Q few. weeks go help to prove this.
 '1 think the Turks are celebrating either a feast or a. fast Anyway, near daybreak one morning, there came out 4sf their trenches at Qufnns a packet tied to string, thrown So that 1t lob bed near our parapet and lay outside s.slsfrpeafl fIaa franarfaaz k.raa1f-se. r,i11.