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chaps were hit & one another killed. Three of us are right on the flank watching for snipers & I have killed my first Turk. It is great. I fired right at 6 o'clock on the bell, and he flung his arms about & stretched out his chest & rolled right down the hill. A moment or two later we got a couple more, but so many fired I could not say who got them. One chap was only wounded & tryed to get away into the bushes but a dozen bullets must have hit him in the following few seconds. The New Zealanders on our left have been attacking f & retiring now for hours, but at last they are apparently established & their machine gun has opened fire. The Turkish snipers are very bold. One was for some time only a few yards below us & we couldn't get him, for as soon as a head was poked over he'd fire. The chap alongside of me had a very narrow escape from the fellow for t a bullet shaved scarred the top of the trench & nearly caught his ear. Another