Charles E W Bean, Diaries, AWM38 3DRL 606/16/1 - August - September 1915 - Part 6

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& Gulf of Smyrna. To patrol
these we have raised a motor
boat flotilla consisting of 2 or
3 boats - the Bessie, the
Enmalla - old pleasure boats
fitted with [[3pda?]]or maximum.
T Boats are under Mr 
Hadkinson, a member of a
Smyrna family, who had a
big farm in Macedonia before
/ war. He is a gineel chaery
white baise chap exactly like
a tyffical admeral & he
manages his little fleet
eser after the style of an
admiral - Hapshep, the
Eumalla, Frenchbuilt
twen serus motor boat abl
knots, side & one naxin
by her owner
un, captain
 

We have shut up a
German submarine in
Aivoli with mines &
nets.
 

Bowring
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Mr Toms (N.R.N.N.B.R.)
Well, today we landed &
went for a 4 or 4 mile
walk through Turkey. We
saile to Pyrgos L, near
& went ashor on
dwall
the malculant. Thr kish
ines visit
soldiers
to a
place - they sa there
Tuckeel
farrison of one officer
45 men on some hells oh
you cansee about 2 wills
away- otherwise C Tarks
leave devali & its 20000
in habilants alone. They
know these are wek a
& master abt 2,000 riftes
Well we steamed into
the beautiful lagsonline
havbour belven the la
 

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the little circle of Islands
wt almost surround the
promontory on wh divate
stands. The bells were
the faint distant fu ple of
an old fashiousr diopsan
oleopaph - water glosit
smeth, riflerious exquisite
dimple purpt & blue&
red, & yellow. We went
ashore underwing of
an Ex-brigand, Captain
John is the only name I
know him by, out little John
He is always thirsting to be
in it. He was found by the
enmalla the oterd
Within weach of the rifter of
the turks, in his boat.
 

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with one sound companion,
one with a bullet theo his
bram & another infu
with some bullet wound.
Da a report had come thro
to I Beleich solice is had been
dtrialing women of divali
by forceg them to give up food
ToHe waded straight in a shot
some, but he went too feir&
was nearly caught.
He was a brys
Anatolia before 1 was
with a tarkinte band, who
cheefly attacked rich Beys
the gave most ot ranse
to the people who harboure
him owohor Tarks
 

suppressed. He ws eventual
caught by 1 Tarks- abt
Too man got rount him &
he had fired of all his
amocinction. The lacks
be one of those exteandince
lencent redgments of theirs
let him off to 1yrs. The
first then he did on gettng
sot was to go ofofin wis
betrayer & shoot him.
During this war be
has been a captain
carried
one repeas. He
a bett w a double rowg
cartridps & a le infec
mndaa
in
rifh. Under
his cost ws stang a pair of
vinoculars. He were a
 

fairly well made dark
brown suit, &lue putties
& a sheeps kin cap
his eyes were
blee & looked at you
by. His cheekboue
as
very
were high. I dareday be
knows be have a terror of a
hame awongt populati
& wokes a bit of mone
out of the information who
he chooses to five or not to
give.
He took us abt 2 miles
- on I Turkish mainland
to a fiit from colong
proprietor sat us down
under a shady persola
 

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filled us up w pomegranit
The place reminded meg
an austiction crryation
faron at Curtwa, or
Reamark. Fshermen
dinamited some mutter
for us & then speared them
Cotynamite cartr
I believe casts os. Satha
the metod is an aspens we
one if you dont get
way at one cast
Nos ofthe French
A prisoner - Turke
was taken 1other day +
sent across to an island
to some of these guards on it

 

till heed be removed.
The Scallyways are not
friendly to 1 Tarks ater
Phockia - when they went
to take him of be wasbt
there. Oh, be escaped
they said - we don't know
where he is. they were
ttell 1
told that
li
bruth. Well- they had
cut him up into three
pieces - that ws scarcely
small eno for t Turks
We lef bread for these people
at one small Iand - Junno
They came down to (beach +
waited for our dinghy - in every
sort of peratical garment, exactly
like so many scally ways out of
Treasure Istand, all bandoliers &
laeves & rifts - suider cartridges
 

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+
Briteeh Lee infield cartridged.
When the boas delivered (bread kere
were a doger of them there to
receive it & a tremendous
attercation arose. I dd see our
Se boatman shrugging his shoulders
& gesticulati - I don't know that
the trouble was - the bandit
whom he brought back was
most meld mannered altongh
he looked black & fience enough.
we took off a couple of spies but
Tohn had captured (or suspected)
rather sheepish young men they
looked. The military governor
had closen them (ty were Gfes)
to watch the motor voats
movements & report - juot as
our guards watch for their
Tubnarmes, I suppose.
one incident in 1 life of the
 

motor boat patrol ws when she
spotted one moning, opf. Tityline
the periscope of a submarme
abt 3 miles away - flashing
& turning in I seen - very pretty
like the eye of some curious
enquiriy monoter. It flashed &
plashed for 20 minutes. The
Enmalle ws much too small
fry for it - it ws waiting for 1
Albeon; to mast have hald
notice to albion ws to leave
Tero to morning. Prevently
out 1 Albion came. The
motorboat had signalled to her
to beware of submernies &
like a flast.
she was
Cmodore
The s of the motorboat
fotille says to 1 navy ws
warned by 1 Ireuch souedays
before 1 Royal Edward ws.