, 1916-01-12

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the men who were supervising the transport
of fool and water, were rallied by Staff Cap
tain Street. Uahesitatiugly they followed
b N back whore they plunged again into the
midst Of that series of struggles in which
Generals fought in the ranks, and men
dropped their scientific weapons aud
eau 5ht one another by the thro"t. The
Turks came on agHin and again. Fighting
magnifcently and calling upon the name of
God, our men stood to it and maintained
by many q deed of daring the old traditions
Of the race. There was no dinching, they
died in the ranks where they stood. Here
Generals Cayley, Baldwin and Cooper and
all their gallant men achieved great glory.
Gu this bloody field fell Brigadier-Genera
Baldwin, who earned his first laurels on
Caesars Camp at Ladysmith. There too
fell Brigadier-Geuera Cooper, badly wouD-
ded. Toward this supreme struggle the
absolutely last two battalions from the Gene
raj Reserve were now hurried but by ten in
the morning the effort Of the enemy was
spent. Soon their shattered remnants be-
gan to lrickIe back leaving a track of
corpscs behind them. By night except for
prisoners or wounded no live Turk was left
upon our side of the slope" "By the eve
ming the total casualties of General Bird
woods force had reached 1900 aud includ-
ed a very large proportion of officers. The
thirteenth Division of the New Army under
Maior-General Shaw had a'one lost 5000
out of a grand total of 10000. Brigadier
General Baldwin was gone and all his Staff
men and of Commanding Officers thirteen
had disappeared from the fighting effective.
The Warwicks and W0rcesters had lost liter
ally every single officer" The old German
notion that no unit could stand the loss of
more than 25 per cent has been completely
falsi6ed. The Thirteenth Division and the
Twentyninth Brigade of the Tenth Irish
Division had lost more than twice that and
in spirit were game for as much more fight
ing as might be required. ::'The British had
held all they gained except two important
salienls, one a hill momertarily carried by
the Gurkhas and the position Chunnik
Bair which had been retained for forty-eight
hours. unfortunately. says General Ham
lion, "these two pieces of ground, small and
worthless as they 8, emed, were worth accord
ing to the ethics of war ten thousand lives,
for by their loss or retention they Just
marked the difference between an important
success and a signal victory. The grand
coup had not come off, the Narrows were out
of sight and beyond feld-gun range, but this
was not the fault of General Birdwood or
any of the officers Or men under his COM
mand." The first operations in the Anzac
zone appeared to have been carried out with
comparative success. The Suvla Bay expe-
dition which has been the subject of the
greatest criticism suffered various misfor-
tunes. Elaborate plans wer worked out by
the Army Staff with Vice-Admiral DeRoe-
beck. During the night of the 18th. a divi-
sion consisting of the 32nd and 34th. Bri-
gades was brought from Imbros to Suvla,
Three Brigades with three batteries were
landed in the darkn ss. The Turks we've
completely surprised. The Division made
good it's position ashore. Most of the sup
porting force consisting of the Irish Tenth
Division were brought from Mytilene. Geno-
raj Hamilton compliments highly the
Navy fol- landing the first of them at dawn
from a distance of 100 miles at the
psychological moment When they were
most needed. But the Navy was unwilling
to land six battalions where the Corps Com
mander considered they could act most eff
fectively. The cause of the Nays action,
General Hamilton says, was for some reason
not specified but it resulted in delay. The
men were obliged to march a considerable
distance under fire and arrived fatigued.
General Hamilton lays stress on the fact that
a large proportion of the troops were new
men. ''On the morning of the 8th." says the
the report, General Stopford recollecting