The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-19
YEARS OF SACRIFICE
AHEAD OF AMERICA
Continued from Page One)

were assigned to take each of these.
The expedition left Lemnos at o'clock
OF beautiful morning.
The Landing on GallipOli
The men were lowered into small
boats and the boats towed to within
300 yards Of the shore. Each boat
held fifty men. The tugs left the
boats at 300 yards, and the boats
were rowed very quietly over a calm
sea. Three hundred yards of level
beach lay in front of the smoothly
moving boats. This beach was WALL
ed in completely by semi-circular
cliff of great height There was not
sign Of human life on the land. The
silence was so deep that the twitter-
ing of the birds ashore could be
heard.
The boats grounded ten yards from
shore. The men disembarked to wade
through three feet of water to the
shore. Suddenly they found them
selves in barbed wire ENHANCEMENT
that the Turks had stretched under
the water. In the confusion many of
the boats capsized. At this instant
between 500 and 1000 machine guns
On a front Of 400 yards concentrated
their fire on the men struggling in the
water. The men were moved down
like grass. The cliffs behind the
beach became masses of fame as they
poured forth shrapnel, bomb and big
gun fire. The water of the sea was
churned into a seething cauldron
around the bodies jof the falling men.
The guns on the British battleships
covering the advance, having a fat
trajectory, were unable to break up
the nests of machine guns. The men
crawled through the wire and fell be-
hind a barrier of sand thrown up by
the breakwater. There they lay all
through the morning, wet and thirsty,
in blistering sun. At 2:30 p. m.
some reserves succeeded in landing.
At 4:30 the command to advance was
given.
Through Hail of Fire.
The line rose from the sand like one
man and made the charge through a
hail of fire. The first obstacle was an
of barbed-wire, very
deep, with the wires so heavy that
they could not be cut by the instru-
ments supplied to the detachments for
that purpose. The ENHANCEMENT had
to be removed with the bare hands
Of the soldiers. While this was being
done, the machine guns killed the men
by scores. Nevertheless, they steadily
advanced, and at $50 p. m. the Turks
had LETT the last of the seven lines of
trenches. A foothold on the penin-
sula had been gained at an enormous
cost Of men.
Major Gledhill detailed the extreme
hardships of the men in Asia Finor.
The dust, the temperature of 10 de-
grees, the dry sand, the putrefying
bodies, the lack of water, the vermin,
the plague Of flies that prevented any
food being taken in the daytime, made
life almost unbearable for the SOL
iiers.
The Allies left Gallipoli without a
suspicion of warning to the Turks, in
4 most important strategic evacuation.
The day after the last man had left
he trenches there, the sea became so
rough that for two months it would
lave been impossible to remove a man.
Turks Fight Fairly.
The Turks fight with clean hands,
to Major Gledhill. He said
hat they we're much more merciful
han the Germans and confined their
to civilized practices. They
lever bombarded a field hospital sim
lie time, and when the British had ar
'anged battery in the line of fire of
! hospital, they sent out representa-
ives of the Red Crescent, their Red
ross organization, and asked that the
,attery be removed before they fired
oward it. Although the "unspeakable
turk" fights fair. Major Gledhill said
he Germans used such barbafous
Methods that they had filled his heart
Tith hate.
At GAIA Major Gledhill was wound
d in the arm with machine gun fire ,
nd was invalided home. He said that
e has paid a great price, that his
had been great, but that he
ad no regret, and that he would do
all again gladly, il he could, be- ,
ause he believed in the righteousness
( the cause for which the Allies are
ghting.