Item 03: Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett telegrams, 1915 - Page 51

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[Page 51]

[Telegram form marked – THREE/2]
[Continuation of Ashmead Bartlett's report of the action of 12th/13th July at Cape Helles]
Daily Telegraph
July fourteenth section three stop the cost of this particular kind of warfare can be worked out with almost mathematical exactness for so many men must be sacrifices so many shells fired and so many gerdades are required for every fresh houndred yards of ground occupied stop it is bludgen work brutal and unattractive and giving little or no scope for skill or tactics or strategy but in front of Achi Baba the

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