ing away in many places in precipitous sandy
cliffs, radiate from the principal mass of the mountain, from which
they run northwest, west, southwest and south to the coast."

As fresh British troops came ashore they cast aside their heavy packs
and followed their comrades across the forty feet of open beach and
into the scrub that covered the side of the cliffs. Halfway up the
Turks had prepared a second position. Attacking it in open formation
the Third Brigade succeeded in clearing it within fifteen minutes of
the time they came ashore, despite the desperate and brave defense of
the Turks.

Meanwhile some of the landing boats, subjected to the terrible fire of
the Turkish guns, were having a bad time. The towing ropes of three of
them were cut by the fire and the boats drifted helplessly about under
the withering rain of bullets that rapidly wiped out their cargoes of
men. But despite these mishaps the First and Second Brigades were
hurried ashore to support the Third. Soon, in the face of terrible
difficulties including the narrowness of the beach, there were between
3,000 and 4,000 allied troops ashore.

By this time the Turks, by means of the mobile carriages prepared for
them by the Germans, had maneuvered some heavy artillery into position
on the heights inland. Also some of their warships, moored in the
Narrows, began throwing heavy shells across the peninsula into the
allied fleet standing close inshore. So dangerous and accurate became
this fire that the transports had to be ordered out to sea and this
delayed the operations seriously.

At Gaba Tepe and on the heights to the north of the beach the Turks
posted guns and enfiladed the Narrows beach. Thus the troops, as they
landed, had to make their way through a rain of shrapnel, machine gun
and rifle fire that wiped out hundreds. Despite the success of the
Australian Brigades in clearing the beach and the face of the cliff,
the Turkish fire never seemed to slacken.

Because of the nature of the country there could be no central control
over the advance fighting and no continued communications between the
several forces making their way to the top of the cliffs. The battle
resolved itself into a series of fights between small parties, or even
individual soldiers, whose one object was to kill as many of the enemy
as possible and make their way as far inland as possible in the first
rush.

By two o'clock about twelve British regiments had been landed and t