The Washington herald., 1919-01-29
HARVARD SOCIETY
HEARS WAR TALES
AT ANNUAL DINNER
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entered the war when it started. Prof.
Moore said. This went on until Har-
ward actually had 1000 degree hold
ers in the service, n figure which rep
resents men from all over the country
who had at sometime or other at
tended the university.
In closing, Prof. Moore talked of the
coming plans of the University with
regard to preparations which, he said.
were to be patterned after those of
West Point Harvart's sons who fell
in the great conflict number 27S and a
gold star for every one OF these sons
of Harvard hangs in the library at
Cambridge.
Although Col. Theodore Roosevelt
was not permitted to die upon the field
of battle. Prof Moore said, his spirit
lives, in the memory of Harvard. just
the same as though he had. Col.
Roosevelt graduated from Harvard in
1850. In paying tribute to the former
President, Prof. Moore recited an ode
to the ex-President, part of which was
dedicated thus, my sword I give to
him that shall succeed me in my pill
grimage; and my courage and skill to
him that can get 1t; my marks and
scars I carry with me to be witness
for me that have fought His battles,
who shall be my Rewarder."
Tells of British Failure.
Lieut.. John Gallishaw, now assist
ant dean of Harvard, and a former
sergeant with the First Newfound-
land Regiment. of GallipoIi fame,
told a vivid story of the British
failure at the Dardaneiles and the
reason for it.
Lieut.. GalEshaw was twice wound
ed. once at Gallipoli and again at
the battle of the Marne in 1918,
when he was with the Fifty-eighth
Infantry. U. 5. A.
The lieutenant related how the
word "Anzacs" originated. The first
letter of the word. he said, repre-
sented Australia, the two second let
ters represented New Zealand and
the last two, "a and &C." represent
Army Corps"
The principal reason for the Brit
lishaw stated, was the poor general
snip of Brig. Gen. Stopford, of the
British army, who has since been
"cashiered."
Gen. Stopford held his men on the
beach at Gallipoli all night when
they were sorely needed to reinforce
the hard-pressed Irish and colonial
troops, who were holding back an
overwhelming number of Turks at
Suola Bay.
Turkish Dead "standing Up."
First there was the difficulty in
landing, Lieut.. Gallishaw said. made
hazardous by barb wire in the water
as well as mines on the beach, to-
gether with a barrage fire.
The Twenty ninth Division of the
British army. he said, was composed
of raw troops which gave way at the
wrong moment and knocked 'into n
cooked hat" the well-laid plans of
Lord Kitchener, who came to CALI
poll to superintend operations.
In one of the battles, Lieut.. CALI
shaw said, the Turkish dead were so
thick that the dead men stood erect,
leaning up against other dead men,
who in turn, were crowded by the
dead behind and in front.
Water, one of the most necessary
things in war, the lieutenant said.
was difficult to obtain. Dead Turks,
the water and this, with the drown
lns OI large NUMBERS OIL men Dy
heavy rainstOrms in the trenches.
added to the ever increasing tight
position of the British forces.
Withdrawal of the British army
from Gallipoli with the loss of only
two men, he said, was one of the
most brilliant feats of the war. A
buck private. with inventive genius,
who rigged up a lot of old guns
with an arrangement to fire them
led the Turks to believe the British
still were occupying the trenches
when they were really leaving the
peninsula and boarding transports
for home.
1t was two days after the British
left taht the Turks discovered how
they had been fooled, he said.
Fighting Names shock Huns.
Speaking of the battle of the Marne,
Lieut.. Gallishaw. who was with North
and South Carolina and Tennessee
troops, remarked that the Germans
were so surprised and shocked at the
bad lighting manner of the Yanks