Show AUSTRAliAN TROOPS PAY TURKS TRIBUTE 9 I LONDON Nov 6 An G.-An An enthusiastic tribute to the Turk as an honorable fighter tighter comes In a letter from an Australian officer officer to a relative In f London The Australians will hear nothing said against the Turk he writes I 1 want to warn you against the tales of Turkish atrocities in Gallipoli or 01 elsewhere We know all about the Turk Haven't we fought against him for months He may be a colored In- In fidel but he fights like a Christian gentleman One of our fellows fellows' went out to get a Turk sniper Something went wrong and the Turk got him But he put up a g good od fight tight against numbers and the Turks were so pleased with him that they dressed his wounds and gave him a bottle of wine and sent him liIm back to us The same officer remarks that at first the English Indian troops re regarded regarded regarded re- re the Australian troops with contempt and consid considered red it almost Undignified undignified un un- dignified to be asked to fight alongsIde alongside alongside along along- side them The bucked bucke when they were first put beside us he says They said that we were not trained soldiers and that It was not fair to have to fight with u us Then we got into a charge together and now they admirably call us us' the White I |