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The Turks were directed by the German general Liman von Sanders, and he expected the landing to be attempted near Bulair on the flat and narrow isthmus which joined the Gallipoli Peninsula to the mainland.

We might put ourselves in front of the Bulair Lines, but there would be far less object in attacking them and working South-west with the Navy only partially able to help us, than by working up from the other end with the Navy on either flank." Birdwood himself rather inclines towards a landing on the Asiatic side, for preference somewhere South of Tenedos.

The point at issue as we sailed down to "X" Beach was whether that little force at "Y" should not be reinforced by the Naval Division who were making a feint against the Bulair Lines and had, by now, probably finished their work. Braithwaite has been speaking to me about it.

Besika Bay and Alexandretta were, therefore, taboo not to be touched! Even after we force the Narrows no troops are to be landed along the Asian coastline. Nor are we to garrison any part of the Gallipoli Peninsula excepting only the Bulair Lines which had best be permanently held, K. thinks, by the Naval Division. When we get into the Marmora I shall be faced by a series of big problems.

'It seemed to me it was the sort of thing one ought to win. 'Just so. I dare say you are right. I hope you'll get one anyhow. But see here, I can't put you ashore. We're going north, not south. 'Going up through the Straits, sir? exclaimed Ken. 'We've gone. We're opposite Bulair this minute, so far as I can judge. 'Then then you're bound for Constantinople? said Ken eagerly. Strang laughed.