Item 03: Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett telegrams, 1915 - Page 72

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[Page 72]

[Telegram form – The Eastern Telegraph Company, Limited. Alexandria Station. Dated 23 Aug. 1915. 207 words. Daily Telegraph London]
[Continuation of Ashmead Bartlett's report of the Anzac attack on Lone Pine, of 6th – 10th Aug]
TWO. to be taken by assault to allow them to debouch onto the further hills which like giant steps gradually mount to [censor's deletion - the final objective] Koja Chemen stop this sinister heighth is split into two portions by a fearful ravine which completely cuts the mountain into two portions stop
[censor's deletion - idea may be obtained on the task which lay ahead of the combined forces under General Birdwood]
Ashmead Bartlett Radcliffe censor

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