On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles

y fallen before the scrub in front was alive with Turks, who came o

nt. 'Don't fire till ye can see

ench was giving the same advice, and the Turks were allowed to

mp it into 'em, lads!' c

turned loose their hose-pipe streams of lead. The Turks seemed to melt a

,' remarked Dave, wit

' answered O'Brien. 'They were jus

air became thick with the shriek and moan of shrapnel, and the vicious whizz of M

Colonials did tremendous execution, some of the Turks actually reached t

bearers were busy. Five separate times during the hours of darkness did fresh masses of Turks sweep down upon the worn a

le yellow light began to dim the stars. His eyes stung with powder smok

Brien with a smile on his blackened face. 'Ju

trench had almost vanished. It had been literally mown down by the storm of bullets which had raged across it all night long. And all the open space was paved with the bodies

ht, and for the momen

uietly. 'The next attack will be one in force, and f

ant?' said Roy Horan cheerfully. 'There's mo

d Ken, with difficulty withdrawing his eyes from the s

two field guns had been brought up, and set in position. In spite of the enemies' fire, all sort

irty-six hours, and it did them all the good in the world. W

tched themselves down, and no one ever slept better on a spr

e solid hill-side quiver, and dwarfed to insign

e was up and

with a pair of glasses to his eyes and a smile on h

still half dazed with

sky. Then from a hill to the left and a mile or so inland a geyser of rocks and so

battleship he had ever set eyes on. Even at that distance her imme

Elizabeth!

sent her along to lend us a hand. Oh, I tell you, she's no slouch. Wa

t of the sleep from his eyes. 'This is something like. Some of

sound was dwarfed when the great super-Dreadnought fired her 15-inch guns. The shells, the length of a tall man and weighing very nearly a ton, were charged with s

Lizzie openi

lls-smoke so heavy that the light breeze could not break it, as it swam in masse

avoured to reply, but one by one they were silenced, and when at last, late in the afternoon

d to have an uncanny faculty for understanding b

u mean?' said

ey've got over the effects o

long rest, the Australians and New Zealanders came pouring over their parapet,

e was hardly a check, then all of a

shouted O'Brien. 'Don't be waiti

onials dropped, but the only effect upon the res

ed past his ear so close that he felt the wind of it. He never paused. Next moment he

themselves bravely. Now they seemed no longer to have any stomach for the fight. As the Colonials poured like

ot minded to let them escape so easily. With loud shouts they gave chase. The Turks, good marchers but poor runners, stood

refront of the line. His bayonet was dripping, a red mi

low-growing trees with wide spreading branches. To his right he heard shouts and sh

a moment to take a swallow of water from his

ge saw four men with a quick-firer hurrying franti

f a German officer. The latter was short and-for a Ger

man was Kemp, ex-steward of the 'Cardigan Castle.' There could be no doubt about it. That sallow compl

man. But blown with long running, his hand shook. At any rate, he missed, and n

through the dead leaves

big fellow was splashed with blood and dripping with perspiration, but in

e a gas

rs have just gone into the trees opposite. They've

he story of the treachery aboard the 'Cardigan C

ugh I can't imagin

arry, we'll have his scalp all

began to run. Ro

act. Two against four, and the latter armed with a quick-firer! And by way of improving matters,

traitor Kemp, and as for Roy, he was the sort

d Ken, as they tore

half a mile back,' was the answer.

t up on a great cattle run, he could track a stray beast over miles of ranges. It was c

to Ken. 'Kemp's quite cute enough to am

lly light-footed, followed his example easily. The tracks led uphill, an

themselves on the side of a great hill seamed with

at Cape Helles i

er was sleeping on a

ge of one of the shallow gullies. 'I tell you what they're after. They're going to em

no

l their little game. We must work up along the next gully

ind, we've got to bust up the gun

ied up the parallel gully until they reckoned that

Roy, and dropping on hands and knees, cr

idge he

They're a couple of hundred yards away, and still moving. What's worse, the

alongside, an

they're taking it easy. We ought to be

no

the left-hand man. I'

ifles spoke at once. Ken's man went down

xclamation and took

ime,' as he saw the man g

dead bolt. Kemp, with a cry of rage which came plainly to their ea

without success, and next instant their q

was Kemp we wan

n worse,' Ken a

into the far gully and be

oy, as he followed. 'He may be l

swered Ken. 'I'll slip

s no sign of Kemp or of the third Turk. They might have

id Ken, as he dropped

aching it. Beside it lay the two

he gun back with us,'

g it on my back. It don't we

ook hi

No, I'll take the breech block off, and if you can find a good-

n air brought it down with a shattering crash on the gun. The stout st

it you?'

at the ruins

re hardly out of his mouth before there came a sudden rush of feet, and Kemp, accompanied

. 'Don't kill them. Take them alive. Ten m

tly, Roy swung up the broken barrel of the quick-firer, and with a shout

e by the barrel was in no way behind his chum. The Turks had not been prepared for such a resistance. Insid

a little aloof on the upper ground. Roy, having dispos

peating pistol and le

I shoot,' he s

don't,' c

d just had time to get his own rifle to his sh

I'll blow your head

white teeth. For a moment it looked as thou

e grim, determined look on Ken's face daunted h

ing forward and picking it up. 'A nice new aut

rply. 'Collar the chap himself. He'll be better

nd Kemp, and lifting him clean off his

im,' s

haughtily. 'I will not be b

Ken retorted. 'And engaged in the charming occupation of s

as his adversary of the bathroom. Dark as it had been, he

ountry,' he answere

her who had been caught on a German ship, engaged in a

shrugged h

him back, Roy, and he'll stand a proper court-martial. Still, as

it?' he dem

her from fear or rage was doubtful. 'Yes,'

them, set out at a sharp pace in th

ere booming. But all around was strangely quiet. Ken began to feel a trifle uneasy. He realised t

up here, eh, Ken?' said R

from somewhere quite close at hand, and

ap?' said Roy,

dash, and hurled himself

Ken. 'Catch Kemp. Shoot

is rifle and t

er a second time, the ex-steward had dived li

showed himself a regular volley of rifle shots rang o

he next gully,' he panted. 'We've got to bun