Charles E W Bean, Diaries, AWM38 3DRL 606/16/1 - August - September 1915 - Part 7

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sunk tt there was ^a submarine
about, but tt / course of
transports ws not altered.
This wants confirming. There
are supposed to be about 5 or
6 submarines abt. We have
lost E7 captured, but we have
captured a German in return
plac, in / Dardanelles. It is
strange tt we fish for these great 
beasts now just as if they were
kell cod or herring.
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The more one thinks of
it / more interesting is our
situation in / Dardanelles.
We are not one step nearer
getting through than we were /
day we landed. We have used
up our only alternative 
-Suvla Bay -& failed. Bulgaria
seems likely to come in against
 

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us. The winter is on top of us.
And / Germans threaten - it may
be only a threat- to send 100,000
men down to help.
They won’t get through the
Australian & N. Zealanders,
so long as there are eno’ of us
left to hold a reasonably
strong line. There's not / least
fear of that. The problem is only
- can we get thro’ them. We
cant get round - tt chance ws
thrown away at Suvla. And
if we cant - what is left?
Another landing. I suppose /
Turks can have another
250,000 men ready by /
spring.
 

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Mond. Sept 20 ^I hear Enver Pasha
seems to has told / Turks  tt
/ Germans are coming to their
help through Bulgaria with
400,000 men. It seems quite
possible - if they are held up in / West
as we are this is / chief remaining
outlet for their energy & once they
have finished Russia they can
hit England harder here than any where
else in / world - Gallipoli, Egypt,
Persian Gulf, India. I don't know
what we shd have to do - our
force. One chance wd be tt / Germans
for once might be tempted to waste
their strength in an expedition far
from their country.

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The men and their
leader.
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