OCR Text |
Show IRISH MEET THE TURKISH TROOPS Battle That Follows is Ferocious, Feroc-ious, With the Turks in Full Retreat. London, Aug. 27. A dispatch to Router's Tolegram company from the Dardanelles, dated August 19, says: "For the moment the severe fighting fight-ing has como to a stop along the front of our now positions, after the week of battles which followed the landing at Suvla bay. The most Important Im-portant Advantage secured has been In large extension of the territory hold by us on the southern shore of the peninsula. Resting upon Suvla bay, with Its left occupying the long ridge which follows the coast Inland for several miles, our army holds the plain southward to where the heights of 'Anzac' look down upon IL so that we are In virtual possession from the cliffs overlooking the Gulf of Saros almost to Gaba Tope. riocpHhlnir Hip. ehnxco of the Irish division on a Turkish bill to the loft of the Suvla bay position, the corre- Ispondent says: "The Turks came out to meet them, and most exciting bayonet fighting followed on the saddle between the two crests. Bayonets were flashing and stabbing for several minutes before be-fore the Turks began to give way. Then they left the crest and ran down over the rldgo. the Irishmen standing up and firing down on them, (WLUIO ill 111 LUl Villa X311L1011 HlilUllllIC guns on the hills behind drowned th& sound of the rifle fire whenever the gunners were able to get a clear view of the fleeing Turks." The battle for Sari Bair hill, which the Australians and New Zealanders captured but were compelled to evacuate evac-uate because the troops on their left did not advance far enough, was a most desperate one, according to the correspondent , "The dead Ho thick everywhere and the stench Is appalling," he writes. "On the 9th the Turks came down n iT-nn tlllmhorfl frnm tlio i-Mrrn above and tried to sweep our men off the hill entirely. They themselves were driven back, however with frightful losses. Being unable to bury their dead, the Turks threw their bodies down the gu'ley until they are stonped hv the nature of Hip trround. while others thrown pfter them are stopped by the firsL Con-senucntlv Con-senucntlv the whole valley is choked with Turkish dead. "The Australians and New Zoaland-rs Zoaland-rs have cained nnothr addition to their newly acauired territory. In their narrow position they now have elbow room and are In touch wUh our nosts across the plain to Suvla bav And what Is not their least imnortant advantage, thev have a sunDly of fresh water within their own position posi-tion " |