Word: gallipolis
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Everyone, including Mr. Sato, agreed that of course the Lausanne Treaty is to be torn up. Elected chairman of the Conference was Stanley Melbourne Bruce, one of the gallant Australians whom the Turks trounced at Gallipoli. Handsome Mr. Bruce, now High Commissioner of Australia in London, was gravely wounded during the slaughter of his countrymen by the Turks. Last week he asked Dr. Aras to please be considerate about the graves of Australian War dead in excavating for Dardanelles fortifications. This the swarthy, squint-eyed little Turk politely promised, patting the stalwart, pink-cheeked Australian reassuringly on the back...
...Dardanelles wrote their bloody name in history when the Allies' disastrous Gallipoli offensive utterly failed to take Turkey's formidable fortifications. After the War a defeated and prostrate Turkey watched the destruction of its forts by the victors. In 1923 the Treaty of Lausanne decreed that the famed Straits should be open to all ships, should never again be fortified by Turkey. Last fortnight Turkey's President Mustafa Kamal ("Grey Wolf") Ataturk moved to scrap the Treaty of Lausanne, refortify the strategic Dardanelles...
...Eagle Beak, styling himself "the Hero of Gallipoli," though his role in that British shambles was hardly stellar, pointed out over Harar Province and said portentously, "Out there will be the grave of Italian Fascism. When the Italian native troops hear of ME they will desert...
...Pasha finally worked up to 1935 and boomed: "The English might conquer Ethiopia or even the French, never the Italians! "It is an axiom that even water will follow the English. They move slowly, never outrunning their communications. They bring water for their troops, as well as victuals. At Gallipoli they suffered horribly at first for water; when they withdrew I myself saw that they had installed running pipes, with hydrants, in their trenches. Yes, with 250,000 men the English could conquer Ethiopia slowly but absolutely. "With 500,000 men Italy could walk into Addis Ababa, into Harar, even...
Never noted for speed, the Olympic achieved her greatest fame in the War when she safely transported 25,000 troops in the Gallipoli campaign, some 200,000 more to & from the U. S. and Canada, sank one German submarine, repelled seven others, rescued the crew of the sinking H. M. S. Audacious. Converted to oil after the Armistice, she settled down in the transatlantic run, where she again made news by sinking the Nantucket Lightship last year (TIME...