Arizona republican., 1919-09-01

 the Royal Irish were cut off and all but few were killed or captured.
 In one sector IS officers and 597 men were lost by the Irish Guards in fight ing for some 200 yards of ground. Of one battalion but 47 answered roll call. When the Germans swooped down on the Gordon Highlanders and there were left but ITO of them, with an- initiation staring them, the Connaugnt Rangers came up and turned the tide.
 Against 1000 Germans the 800 Con- naughts and ITO Gordons dashed for ward and when the battle ended 471 Germans were wiped out and 70 more were prisoners. Later on, in a charge against the German entrenched po- sitions. a battalion of the Ministers were the only ones to storm the trenches, and out of 800 that went over the top across 600 yards of open plain against a murderous fire but 200 men and three officers survived. Tn one engagement the Liverpool 1 Irish took a trench, and then aiding the French took three miles of the l Hun lines. At Festbert the 2nd Innis- i killings by daring attack made it pos sible, for the whole division to sweep on and win where another division 1 iidO been ueIeateO.
 It would take a whole page to tell the Dardanelles and Ga1lipoli story. that cost England 114,555 officers and men and the 10th Irish Division more than a third of it's forces. Just imagine trying to land on Revere Beach, not realizing that the water had been cov- cred with barbed wire attached to hundreds of mines.
 And fbn 1apdipC r1ana ap4xx row strip with hills rising above, hav- ing concealed many machine guns, field pieces, riflemen, etc, and topped by a fort, all within a stones throw of the invaders. The Dublins and Nun sters were sent to land against the strongest position.
 The Dublins, who started ashore in boats, were wiped out wholesale, as they neared the beach, from bullets and contact mines. It was pitiful to see the boats, battered and torn from the hail of lead, with the men mangled In heaps so the little craft drifted un- manageable with the tide past other ships.
 Only a few of the Dublins got ashore. Then the Ministers were or dered to get ready to take their turn. They saw all this, lot of young kids making their first venture into war fare.
 Out of the sides of troopship they flowed onto lighters and pontoons where the Turks had exact range. Two out of every three toppled over killed or wounded, but they kept on getting in the water and making the landing It was murderous, but they did it, though some TOO of 1000 Ministers were killed, wounded or drowned At night others landed without losing a man.
 And in the morning they stormed the hill and captured it. Officers whc were there say it was magnificent tc see them from the ships, their yells echofng out over the water and beins returned by the jackies.
 To aid the Dominion forces land ing was made at Sulva Bay and tho { Irish were ordered to capture Choc. . olate Hill. an important point | meant an enveloping movement of .
 dozen miles across a dry, bare country with the Turks having the exact range
 of every section.
 Then came hills and gullies witt : concealed enemies everywhere. Bu
 before sunset Chocolate Hill was taken . following charge by the Dublins, h. niskillings and Irish F'usiliers And they stuck there nearly a week be.
 fore they were relieved.
 It was the 9th Leinsters that topped Sari Bahir, the hardest spot on ths ridge, from which the Dardanelle
 could be seen. And to do it they mad, , a charge quickly when New Zealanderi
 came retreating down the hill, tn,
 lrishmen retaking the place in 20 min. . utes.
 Fight. fight and charge was thi . story all along there. Just considei ! fighting two hours and and not ad ! yancing a foot The Ministers and 6tl
 Dublins faced that, and then with
 final charge up one side of a hill tn, Ministers gained the top and vistory
 And to relieve these troops others ha,
 to fight their way up, the 7th Dub
 lins battling four hours one evening ending with a furious charge to clea $ the way to reach their comrades. . In the general attack later on, whei
 the Australians were cut off iron
 water, the Connaught Rangers earne . the title "The Counting Dangers fo : their charge to capture the wells hel, ] by the Turks. They poured acros
 strip of land that took a terribI toll, but cleaned up the Turks. An, z these same Rangers a few days late ! captured Hill 60. one of the mos
 desperate engagements in the closin }: days of the campaign.
 [ The Irish were not through ye
 After all the pounding they got ther
 the 10th Division was sent to aid tn
 Serbian army. Gen. Sarrail, the ma ! who beat the Crown Prince at Verdur caiH ha Trfe at- .-
 mountain passes one of the most strik : ing feats of the whole war.
 Fighting a rear guard action agains f an enemy of 10 to 1, they stoppe E the onslaught so successfully that tn ;; entire French and British forces es : caped without losing a wagon or
 gun.
 The story of how the London Iris v played football across No mans Ian , in the advance upon Loos is one of tn 5 wonderful stories of the big war I I making charge a football was drop : ped by one of the men and, followin
 the command, "On the ball, I4ondo
 irish!' away they started, kicking
 one to another as cooly as if in a reg : ular game, with bullets thinning tn : ranks as they advanced.
 It was finally kicked into a Germa
 trench with a chorus shouting "Goal'
 and after it poured the men. The
 continued from the first to the sec
 ond line of trenches through, gas, ma l chine, rifle and shell fire and won tha e They then helped clear Loos. r For two days the London Irish rt
 sisted terrific counter charges and hel e fast till relieved The general in con
 mand addressed the remnant of thel f on their return, telling them their figl a was one of the grandest in the war, ar it had helped save an entire arm . corps.