nce of running into your own artillery fire, generally ends
disastrously; if too much progress is made we can rarely retain our
position.

The Turks were entirely demoralised by the heavy bombardment and
cleared out of their trenches, some of our men, as they came to us
wounded, complaining that they ran so fast that they could not get
near them. Many got down on their knees and surrendered, still
shouting their war cry, "Allah, Allah".

Large bodies of prisoners, all motley crews, passed us during the day,
and we had a good many wounded Turks to attend to. I dressed one I was
much interested in--a short, swarthy chap of middle age, who was
brought in by some Fusiliers. This man had jumped on the parapet of
his trench, where he coolly stood upright and shot five Fusiliers dead
before they managed to bowl him over, but a shattered left arm left
him helpless. He walked in with about sixty other prisoners, with a
bullet through his upper jaw and tongue, which had come out at the
back of his neck; another shattered completely his left arm, the
splintered humerus being at a very sharp angle, and a third through
his thigh. He had lost much blood from the divided brachial artery,
and was very thirsty, and soon drained the fill of a feeding cup of
water, in spite of the state of his mouth. He soon wanted more "su"
(Turkish for "water") and was given a bowlful, but he would have
nothing to do with the bowl, he stuck his finger to its side to show
that he wanted the one with the spout. Evidently he was surprised I
did not cut his throat, and all the time I was dressing him he patted
me with his sound hand.

All the guns were trained on a small patch to begin with, a
troublesome part known as the "boomerang," a redoubt with sixteen
machine-guns. This was blown to smithereens.

The whole fight was on our extreme left, with a front of not much over
half a mile. This must have been very thoroughly ploughed up, and a
large number of Turks blown to pieces. One woman was found among the
dead, but it is believed that many of them had their wives with them.
Many of their underground dwellings were so elaborate that they had
evidently made up their minds that they were to spend the coming
winter here.

Our casualties, although light compared with the Turks, must be heavy.
Over 300 passed through our station before dark, but at that time
perhaps the bigger half was still to come. Those lying between
trenches have usually to lie where