Charles E W Bean, Diaries, AWM38 3DRL 606/8/1 - May - June 1915 - Part 13

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have played several clever dodges. One was-
every time a certain howitzer of ours fired to
fire one of their own guns into Quinns post. The
Artillery observation officers – or Col. Johnson I think it
was - proved this to the General. They went to a positn
from wt they co see where the Lowitzer shill burst.
But
in quite a different part of the bis, ussoon
ao ever it fired some small gun over opposite ae
Brt Bite find also t following it shot for shot? when
it stopped the tark gau stopped. Presully Col. T.
said acte - weitl see of he pas again. He had the
towities fired & the little tark followed at once
a little Cate this time. The report always followed
the howitzer report - som - som. He shell went
uA lace
wh frequent reports and to come back to we were
being fire ato by our own ps.
Ann gunt with a whistling shell
probably & in perhaps 8 apened today on
the ship in haibour firg percussion Hell
The Newmarker (flutsweeper) was in Carbonr
with a load of bisauts or coneting in a
barge alongside brought I fancy from
Imbros. The 6th shell of fair wnto her.
I lear the destroyers yesty were new
ones - wh bought those troops
into shrapnel fers. They wereut warned
bec! no one here was warned of their
arrival until after tys had arrived.
that siere of
It cost a loss of 46 men
 

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Staff work.
The enper too is causing as heavy bases.
He is so lo have got 33 men y esterday up shrapnet
gully & 42 Eodig on the Nz. bedsh amongst
be 3od/ L.A. I fso it is sheer carelessness for on
that beach the have a commenicati trench
wh avoids te siper. They ed see these men
quile charle today & got outo one of them
whilst he was performing the offices of hatture
at 1500 &do. H depped anto has truck in a very
lively manner.
of ratur fandy the distrages which is ra
the commadores shey here got in on those
Snpers tonight. Durry the whole day thish
little says pave been agtive - laking as fas
as possible the part of the inting fleet. The
distroyed was blazing away last night too
today at 9.aon. when the Newnarkit was
hat she stood in & replied. We look on their
little guns as toy gun here – but after all
they have 3 Hanch guns in this claas of destroyes
& that is a much beppogun then our
field gun; probably it fire a 30B shell.
Lgter in the morning at 1e am. They
brought ap the old Quiser Dovis, escortel
by two destragers one on each side of her
always keeping alt 2ooyds abeud.
rafher lter a judges excort of trogers. The came
 

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clowly roun te bay out to be point o back ayn
to the south without firig. Perh. the gun of the
even edutbe seen. Aw abl Se4 the distroyer
pnd in again & fixe. She has a range buor then
& steals ap to it (it tooks like a great fishermans
float) hater still at 5 pm two
distrayer trawlers 705 & 823 came across from
Imbras with store bayes on their lee sides (Co from
the guny the destroyer with another waited side
by side near t bovy like two little sisters
sheek by abeck watcheyg for the enemys gun to
open fire, but it neve didso. I famy key have
tocated it. Our jaus [ocati two of teers qust above
the top of the man getly the othen day & blew toth
of them out; tey blew one into the air the first
day & the othr was taken away; they blew, the
other onto its side the next. They co see the toganners
wosking a brt high ty a see them from the
breast apwards. He anx day 10 second gun
was brought back. a they got lease to p for it
knocked it outs its side.
yesterday they were told that masses
dinfantry edbe seenb moving behind
the ohis grove director. By the time they got
the posito the infantory had disappeard if
they were wer there the numbers of carts id
be seen just stringing behind an hill. The carts
also desappeared but after them came some
males They got outs th mles. An officer
an a white Lorse came up & the males went
 

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for all thei were work down behind a ridge
They mast have lost sone. They also fot the
Cin. howilzer outs a gun emplocment behend
t Tipe today.
Ire gune agst as today are probable
not more taan £8.
to start with there were abt 96
apperenty seen or aenowon of in Gattipsle.
Tre Istelligence people were wonderple
accurate after all. sary put
4 gans (implacements for 9) at K. Tepe.
(Coasty there were only 2 berd
2 up the valley bebind (East of) our positer.
(tare were there & pert S.)
H gans at Rozadere wh certainly were there.
4 gans (of I remember rght) on 922.
(these were much towet down the
ridges - but otherwise kay are right
over below Pasta Dagt in the ruins.
(there may be the ones at Otive Gsove)
Thue were others on the Coast furte
S than Kaba Tepe & oters atmaikss.
& below Relid Bahr 8 x 10 at a
point S. of Kilid Bahr &C in
kereves Dere. This may all be
right.
we here hardly seem to have more
Today
than 8 guns cget uo t at one time we ead 5
probabl
now to be deg
Te Tarks seem
 

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in on every side going to beslege uns
in fact. To attack as will be playing
au jame so perh. they wont do that
They are agptt doing a lot on tEe Riled Bahe
plateon, at one or two places on the
shore of the Dardaells beindit
at Boghalit. It woks as tho. they
feare (we sht get across the Penencala
out wanted to make Relif Banr platian
a regular fibraltar. The Bntish have
advanced a bit - +To have the French-
down South.
Our gunners, till we thei whole
staff has a trimendous, belief in Col. Hobbs.
He is vervy & doesn show to advantage, they
say, atDHO. But hes I trong ene when
at wirk
Tmust put down a few additional
points white ocasey have tott me as
various time abtt the General (Bridges)
When first whi be & white got
ashose they stanld almost at once for the
right. It ws abt 76C. ttren & the planhad
on charged - M Cay being sentin on the
right by Col. Maclagan enstead of on
ty left. The fen. I white wanted to see
why this was & how it ardefied things.
accordingly they starte down
beach + (over queensland Knoll There
 

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they saw some of our and Bde climbing
the first ridge opposite. The fem aske of
the eveny were kerea precently foun
the enemotoe rounted on
the men gaing up hill Fasken thing why
one earth thy didn't g0 up the easy
way on the flat. He save them, a grear dreatig
down. Then he went on over the neek,
behaid Col. MCays AA. & the first trig
he saw there was our men comig back
oh yes the begurs were coming vack
sd col white when he told me. The Cin.
waited till he as care tays were atryer
on the right & then went across to the left
t have a look there.
The aex doy, in the early aftenion
be went out to 400 hit. He first worke
ap the nearer side of it petting men out
of gullies & hollows, & Swearing at them
calling them all sorts of thes. They Coker
at him very shamefaced o & winton.
Then be walked right uptt the bruche
Whelst be as standing amongst them &
collecting them 5- or 8 of them, were
bit quete close to him.
Having (ot them togetier he walked
up to the firing line more on the right
abt the trenches of the 4th or 6th. He
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and one man sd for goodness sake come
down here six - you'll be hil for certain.
the gen. oke down atli & surply sd
Redamned. Presutl be walteed on
gobdown into the little shallow trench of the
day. He staye there a bit -& consented
on negent advice to beep low as he
left it. But he hadnt joue 12yds before
he shood staghtup again
He ordered toe 4t2 to strayhten
uepits tie by sending up 2 platoons.
But he never wved his hand (so casey
says) as simpaor tought a The straighlining
up was sometion - perh two treachery
wistaken for a general advance & so
toe 4th charged, all by itself. Glasfurd
saw this, I believe.
The day us excedinly quiet that.
We have bn felling a fair number of E
moners Cately, mostly deserters.
two men, armenians came along (beacl
from Jobe Tepe way the other day eaning
for dear life) the ts potting at them. Two
came in the day of the anmustice - Tumplo
down into one of our trugles from a buriee
party It wasn't regular but we
ad not hand them back - they cod have bn
shot. I saw 13 coming in the day before
 

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yest. They are used for fatigue, I ceamts be
alld abt without guards now - some of
te at any rate. Simphen had one today
who ws carrying a briendous load.our
men & the navy give Feen agarettes, & the
Indians give them chupattis.
sote of new were in bathing today.
I beard soneone say [G0?a & saw a race
of 4 from a barge to the shore;in the
afternoon a sarapnel bast just in to place.
some men were batiing jast a yard or two
in shore of it- & that second race was the
quicker.
Richer
Bd. The by destroyer, put in very close
to shore just opp. Fishermans tat tonight.
She had a man in the crows next; & she didnt
man her gun, I suppose because she
was under rifle fir but crept closer
closer, waiter a certain time - them banger
in one shot & got out. I thank she must
have been after those suipers. The man in
the crows nea was not bit, but I expected
to see him fall all the time.
Amait came in - & wit it the
papers. In the Argus there was an article
from Chas. Smeth which caused one to
think a lot. It was atterly different from
the way he used to tall to be in caero
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up in public out I also didn't expect him
to let me down. And this article charg does
so - it doess'd mention my article
specificall but anyose who read it we take
it to refer to it & to state cather indegnantly
that here was no justification for it.
He makes a statement about the visit of
the 2ad contingent to Colonbo whech he
himself told we was not true he told me
& was the first to tett me tat it was
a bis of a scandal & that here were
mumbers of men as hove in spiity of wher
Col. Monagh might say. There was no
necessit to say anythey about it.
but aere teeems to me to be lus necessity
when you do meation it, t mistead the
public by stating what you know to be
false. siming green is another who
stanrate
gt gave we to underet
kat I was right in what I wrote - &
who I see hes written an article for the
papers inthe which he takes the other tido
These friends of mine - if its not my
article theyre referring to (which of course
they know as well as I that every one will
assume it is) might have the pluck jast
to make that point clear, But if they
hunt with the pounds therell be no more
runnen with this hare. Senator Pearce
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about the same article. Sevalor
pearce said it was not so much capt
Bean's letter he ws referring to. I don't
believe that was what Bridges said because
he was a strnight man & he told me
to write to letter, & told me afterwos
that the only thing he saw to object to in it
was ke ciscriminatio between Maadi Lyes
Horse camp) & mena. He told me at the
time when he wrote that letter that it was
not my letter that was wrong but othe use
that was made of it - there was no so
much? in what he sd to me; & I dont
behive Rere can have bn in what he so to
Senalor Pearce.
Tonight a party from our Gth Bon
went out on to the sedge S.E of their tines
will te trench overlooking Gaba Tepe;I
news came back that they had bayonetil
Impers & taken one prisoner. whitst
I as writing this ddark foom appeared
in pond of the dugout - sultued agst
the Sea. It had a fixed bayoneto
carried 2 rifles. It was part of the
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guard sent down a1 prisoner. They
then
in cumased wevn in port of my dujout
the 4th tall form a shall cap being
91 prisoner
tt
this battle has followed 1 usuat