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Updated: May 31, 2025
Over the hills to the south, toward Maidos and the Dardanelles, rolled the distant thunder the cannon the hapless fifty, looking out of their house on the beach, had been sent down to stop and all about us, in the dazzling Turkish sunshine, were soldiers and supply-trains, landing, disembarking, pushing toward the front.
The line of communications that linked the Achi Baba position with Maidos and Gallipoli was to be cut by our forces operating from Suvla and Anzac, and the Narrows were to be opened to our fleet by the capture of Sari-Bair. The epic of the actual Suvla effort has been nobly told in both Sir Ian Hamilton's dispatches and Mr Masefield's Gallipoli.
Again a pause. Then Ken spoke again. 'It's a tug, father. She's towing a string of barges. She's going across to Maidos. 'Then I know what they're doing, said Morgan. They're taking stores across from the Asiatic side. I heard they had started that game since our submarines began to worry them in the Marmora. 'I thought as much, Captain Carrington answered quietly.
They got on to the foot of it and, by their dashing onslaught, drew the fire of all the enemy guns; but, what was still better, heavy Turkish columns, on the march, evidently, from Maidos to the help of Krithia, turned back northwards and closed in for the defence of Gaba Tepe.
'Does the German himself bring the guns? asked the first speaker. 'He does, brother. They are two of the best which were sent from Constantinople to Maidos. Most like, they are already in position on the heights above us, ready to rain their shrapnel upon the unbelievers. Ken had heard enough. This was news which the colonel must learn at once.
"With regard to the employment of the reinforcements asked for in my No. M.F. 234, General Birdwood estimates that four Brigades are necessary to clear and extend his front sufficiently to prepare a serious move towards Maidos. I should therefore allocate a corps to the Australian-New Zealand Army Corps as the other two brigades would be required to give weight to his advance.
'I wonder where the powder is, said Ken with sudden eagerness. 'What's up now? demanded Roy. 'I've got it, said Ken quickly, as he began pulling a tarpaulin off a pile of canvas bags. 'A rare lot of it too! 'You're not thinking by any chance of lobbing shot into Maidos, are you? asked Roy sarcastically. 'Not that, said Ken. 'Hardly that. But what about setting off this little lot?
L. von S. would then, it might be surmised, draw upon his reserves at Maidos and upon his forces opposite Anzac: they would get their orders about mid-day: they would be starting about 1 p.m.: they would reach Krithia about dusk: they would use their "pull" in the matter of hand grenades to counter-attack by moonlight.
They had crossed the main road leading to Great Maidos, they had had hairbreadth escapes sufficient to last most folk for a lifetime, and now at a little after one in the morning, they had crossed the whole peninsula, and were facing the famous Narrows, with their double cordon of forts on both sides of the Straits, the nut which for so many weeks all the Powers of the British and French combined had been engaged in trying to crack.
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