Item 03: Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett telegrams, 1915 - Page 70

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[Page 70]

[Blank telegram form]
[Continuation of Ashmead Bartlett's report of the Anzac attack on Lone Pine, of 6th – 10th Aug]
R.T.P.
Daily Telegraph London

Cable two section two August twelveth stop sufficient it is to say that the ground gradually rises from Anzac to Koja Chemen heighth in a series of hills and ridges broken by deep nullahs and dongas and covered with thick scrub which provide excellent cover for snipers and that form of irregular warfare in which the Turks have proved themselves so skilful throughout the campaign stop but before any advance could be made towards the main heighth the whole of the successive lines of Turkish trenches north east of the Colonials had
Ashmead Bartlett
Redcliffe censor

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