The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-22

of the London Times describing the
landing of the Greek troops to en-
gage in battle with the Turkish Ma
All day long the flagship KiIkis had
lain at anchor off Sedd-ul-Bahr. To
port was the peninsula of GallipoH,
and its wrecks closed the view to the
west. Far on her port quarter lay
Imoros with its wooded hills, and
over the highest point of Imbros tow
cred the black summit of Phengari,
the mountain that crowns Sam othrace
where once they worshipped the
mighty ones" the Phoenician gods
of fire.
On our port bow lay the River
Clyde, piled up on the beach where
the Irish Infantry of the immortal
18th Division fell in heaps under the
enemy's fire before Sedd-ul-Bahr was
letormed, and beyond her the great
stripped blue-gray hull of a French
warship, her curved bow pointing to-
ward the cliffs as though she had
sought to ram them and been shot
down in. mid-charge. &
-Sedd-ul-Bahr cleaned in the sun,
a mass of white ruins, and one could
village faint gray-white lines where
the Turk had drawn his trenches in
the limestone. To starboard lay the
flats that lead to the plain of Troy
and the bumped mound of Kum-Kale,
where the Frenchmen landed on the
day of the Six Beaches. Ruins of
villages, wrecked hulls Of ships and
short-torn forts told the tale of the
Battle of the Landing, and the
slaughter that followed for many a
month. Almost ahead of us we could
thi1l" which, through some mapmak-
er's mistake or interpreters error, has
passed into history as Achi-Baba.
Greeks Cheerful Soldiers.
Toward nightfall the transports be-
gan to arrive. Two flew the Red En-
Isign, the rest the blue and white of
EGreece. They were packed with men
and material, and the heat on board
1.-THE Greek soldiery, Ionian islanders,
t:Athenians and ,mountaineers from
tAcarnania and Phocis of the "Xanthi'
tDivision, were in good heart, and a
kgreat burst of cheering rang out when
1.-THE leading transport passed the Kill
kis. The cheers were repeated as
a British destroyer came. in sight
with the Greek general and his staff
ION board. Soon they were transferred
to the Kilkis, and thereafter confer
fences and discussions lasted long in
ITO the night
Next morning the fleet of transports
and its convoy-the Kilkis two de-
stroyers and a little torpedo boat,
with British destroyer of modern
type as well-weighed anchor and
steamed into the Straights. Its speed
was low, for the current was strong,
and several of the transports could
do no more than six knots. but one
point of these shores, which have
been famous since the wars of Troy.
(Here one saw the dry torrent bed OF
the Kereves Dere, where so many
Ebrave men fell; there the shoa1 where
the Goeben lay around for two days
under fire from our airplanes, there
tMaidos, which few desperate Aus
ttralians reached in the first fury OF
their rush inland from the Amaze
lBeach. 1t was not till late in the
Afternoon that the whole convoy had
passed Lampsacus (LapsakD.
After nightfa1l the fleet divided
lone group of transports with destroy
Ter protection steamed toward the
tGuif of Artal<i and more than one
tGreek officer 1aughingly reminded me
tof the visit of Jason and the Argo-
Inauts to Cyzicus, near the ruins
whereof stands Artaki town. The
frest bore on past and near the steep
tsouthern coast of Marmara lsland
(which one that windy night, half Ill
hby a young moon, half obscured by
tburrying clouds, looked like one great
cliff; and from the base of that cliff
flashed lights as we passed by. The
Peninsula of Cyzicus, which had seer
the lights, replied with an answering
flare, and henceforth all along thai
coast the agents of the Nationalist
lit their fire signals as the ships
passed.
Prepared for an Attack.
One wondered how the landinE
would succeed, for clearly the enemy
was forewarned and the wind wa.
Ifreshening fast And so along thu
north shore of the Peninsula o
Cyzicus, in sight of peaked klais'
and the broken mountains abov'
Perana and past Mola Island, tn
fleet entered the Bay of Panormos
by now the moon had gone down
1T was hard to see in that dim Ugh
of earliest dawn, and ones eye
mountains and the vast gray bull
of the Benbow, which had proceeded
us into the bay.
Then suddenly the light grew ros,
I'm the east and dawn broke swiftly
.'Panormos" said some one, and slow
ly we made out the houses by tn
tharbor and the white walls of tn
-Konak," on which flag could b
seen. From the shore a witless Turl
Oct off a rifle at two miles range a
IA destroyer But no shot followe
this Slowly we crept in, glad
know from the wireless that the land
ing at Artaki had succeeded, bu
Wondering whether if the Turk Tough
we could avoid wrecking part of tn
tGreelS quarter with our guIi Near
Ter we came, still nearer drew tn
Benbow to the shore, and suddenly
destroyer flashed message that tn
white flag had gone up. =.
1t seemed too good to be true, br
true it was, and in another quarter {
AN hour came a signal to say that
tug containing the Moslem and Chris
Etian members of the town council
the MuIt1 anu tne pr4ACipdl Hree
and Armenian clergy was on its wa
toward us. Soon she appeared, bl
lit was rough weather; she could n,
get a1onside at once, and we wei
Obliged to watch her for many mil
iutes and speculate whether that SOM
what weary looking dignitary w;
the town clerk and whether that e.
ECCLESIASTICAL hood concealed a seasic
bishop or rabbi.
Find Every Dull Town.
OF all the towns on the southeI
shore of the Sea of Marmora Pal
Lder1na is perhaps the least interes
ing. 1t has no antiquities wor
mentioning. Its vicinity and hinte
band are not picturesque-stony n
lowered with thin grass and IL
khorny "geven' plant, or fat, tn
1monotonous cortland It's large Turl
ash quarter is quite astonishing
seuualid and unclean. There are son
good houses belonging to the wea
thier Turks and to CircaSsian no