The Southern herald., 1918-09-27

on our way to the front line. Along
the road were numbers Of troops
scOfing and among them Indian troops
on sentry duty. They looked like q
bunch of frozen turnips, cool and un'
comfortable. We were close enough to
make the roar of the cannOnading
seem intolerably loud and could see
! the bursting shells, particularly those
frol the British ships.
Then we came across some Turkish
prisoners who were sheltering in IN
old barn, / guess 1t was, and we
stopped for shelter and rest. They
told US that their troops we're very
tired from long fighting, but that they
had plenty Of men. They said a couple
Of shells had dropped about a hun.
dred yards from the barn just before
we came, so we knew the batteries
we're trying to get our range and we
did not stay any longer, but went
away from there and on our road
About 800 yards farther on we came
to ruins, and when we went inside
we found so or 60 of our boys cooking
and sleeping and not giving q thought
to the shells or shrapnel The mules
outside were banging away at the hay,
as though there never had been war
in the world. There was no shell made
that could bulge them away from
that hay unless 1t hit them.
Then along came q cart making a
lot Of racket. One Of the fellows In II
had half of his face shot away and
was all bandaged up, but he was try.
ing to sing and laugh just the same
as the rest were doing. They were
Anzacs, and were pretty badly shot up
The word "Anzac," as you probably
know, is made from the initials Of the
Australian and New Zealand army
corps. They had regular town, called
Anzac, on the peninsula. At SuvlG
bay and around Gaba Tepe the Anzacs
got further Into the Turkish lines thar
any other unit In the allied armies
They were wonderful fighters.
, BY this time the Turks were making
. an attack, and all you could see tC
the front was one long line Of smoke
and spouting earth. Then our guni
/ started and the noise was deafening
| 1t was worse than In the turreti
} aboard ship during an engagement
My head rang for days after we lef
! the Dardanelles.
The Turks were getting better idei
Of our range now and the shells wert
falling pretty close to us, but tlnaIl,
we tore In with the 14-inch naval
and ripped up three of their batteries
In the lull that followed we made goot
time and reached our front line posi-
tions at Sedd-el-Bahr during the after
noon.
The next morning we made our frs
attack. l had had a bad night Of II
thinking about Murray, and when tn
time came there never was a cha
more glad to charge and get chanc
at the enemy with the bayonet thai
was.
| We attacked according to a program
Time cards were issued to the Office
of each section, so that we would wOr
exactly with the barrage. To be ahea
OF, or behind the time card, wOul
mean walking into our own barragC
The time Of attack is called zero
J that is, the minute when you leav
the trench. Some of the Anzacs said
!. meant when yeEr feet got the cOldes
but / do not think they suffered yer
much with trouble in the feet-nC
S when they were advancing, anywa!
e The time card might read somethin
8 like this: First wave, zero, advance
Y rapid walk, barrage 25 in 10 seconds
!. take first trench, 0:20; second wav,
| same as the first, pass first trencl
y O:23i take second trench, OBS. Th
d third wave is ordered to take the thlr
e trench, and so on, for as many line
d as the enemy is entrenched. The othe
n waves might be instructed to Occup
n Hill Z, 1908, or dig in behind rocl
Il :45. Here, zero is understood, th
t first figures standing for minutes an
r the others for seconds. It might tax
g several hours to carry out the pr
e gram, but everything is laid out I
h IN exact schedule.
e I was in the sixth line Of the thir
e wave Of attack and zero was AS
q. m. Whistles were to be the signI
y for zero and we were to walk to tn
d first line Turkish trench. AS we can
e out our barrage FIRE would be burs
i ing 90 yards ahead Of us and woul
h | llAk o. s.nrin n.rnn.. IN nnnnrhn q.