In celebration of Anzac Day this year in Shanghai has two special points of significance.
First of all, it is the 2st anniversary of the heroic landing—generally known as the Battle of the Beaches—and secondly, the accident of military duty, has brought here the Ist lancashire Fusiliers to whose Joffre.|regimental history the day added one of the most glorious episodes in a long record.
Lancashire Landing on W Beach as part of the epic of ihe 29th Division has been graphically described by Mr. Winston Churchill:
Hero the Lancashire Fusiliers, after a heavy bombardment from the Fleet, were towed and rowed to the shore in thirty or forty cut ters. "Again the Turks reserved their fre til the moment when the Jerding beals touched the Beach, Again ils effects were devastating, Undelerred by the most severe Josses from rifle and machine-gun fre, from sea mines and Tand mines, this magnificent battalion waded through" the water,—struggled through the wire, and with mare vellous discipline actually reformed their attenuated Jine along the Beach 'A company on the left, managing to land with little loss beneath the promontory of Cape Tekke, climbed the cliffs, established itself on the summit, being reinforced by the Woreestershires and thus secured the precarious position of the troops landed on W Beach itself. Six Vieloria Crosses came to the XXth Foot for that day's work. The fact makes further comment superfluous. Young men and women who to-d feel it a little boring to contemplate the bald head of some crotchety father or uncle as he sits grumbling over the eggs and his morning paper may find consolation in the narrative of his homeric deeds twenty-one years ago, He did not grumble then: he was a grim figure of chivalry arrayed against a gallant and no less heroic enemy.
But Anzac Day, recalling as it must that Lancashire Landing and the exploits of the rest of the 29th Division, not forgetting that un= daunted war-horse the River Clyde, is dedicated primarily to the land= ing of the Australian and New lealand Army Corps at Ari Burnu, The intention was that while the 29th Division landed at Helles- -the Battle of the Beaches—and thus occupied the Turkish defence, the Anzacs, as the Corps was called, should get ashore at Gaba Teppe and advance fu the most vulnerable part of the Peninsula. Without artillery preparation and before dawn the adventure was made. Darkness misled the boats and the Anzacs ore actually landed in a small bay tooply overhung by cliffs" vastae rubes geminique minantur fu caelum scopuli—then known us Ari Burnu but now honoured by the name of Anzac Cove. The Arzacs Janded without loss, under desultory. fre from Turkish pickets, and successfully drove the Turks before them in the dim hour before dawn. By 7.30 on the morning of April 25, 1915, 8,000 men had been landed. By two clock, in spite of heavily rifle and artillery fire the whole infantry of the lending, Australian Division, 12,090 strong, and two batteries of Indian mountain artillery, were ashore occupying a semi-circular position of considerable extent, "the 2nd Division including a' New Zealand brigade followed, and within a period of twenty-four hours In. all 00 men and a small proportion of lillery were effectively landed.
Mr. Winston Churchill has told how, thanks to the brilliant ini-ud bold disobedience of orders displayed by Mustapha
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