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NIGHT
FIGHTING.
" By sunset the brigade had captured
all the works attacked on tho
left, but was compelled to evacuate
two of the captured trenches on the
right. It was a great day for these
soldiers, who, 'despite the extreme
heat and difficult task, fought like
voterans.
" The Turk has a partiality for
night fighting, for then his inferiority
in artillery not apparent.
Throughout the night
of
.July
12
the rifle fire was unceasing, and
at
dawn the noise rose in a crcscendo.
The Turks brought up reinforcements
aad attacked our weary men, through
the . communication
trenches, with
bombs and bayonets.
The
Scots
fought gallantly, but could not maintain
all the ground that they ~ had
won.
They were driven out of two
trenches, but clung stubbornly to the
redoubt.
At daybreak our staff examined
the situation closely, and decided
to give the enemy no rest, > but
to follow up with
another attack.
Two of our exhausted brigades were
withdrawn, a
naval division
entering
the front trenches.
" The field artillery at 4
o'clock
in the afternoon opened
fire.
The
battered shambles of trenches
were
now knockod about until they
wore
'.almost unrecognisable.
A high wind
and the bursting shrapnel threw
up
immense clcmds
of • du&t. obscuring
terrible rifle fire, regaining two trenches,
but being held up at tho third
and fotirth.
Our men moved to the
right, advancing a long distance and
skirting the enemy's works, but were
unablo to enter the trenches.
The
fighting on the right continued
for
three hours, hut the action was bidden
from view, and
it
was
impossible
to know what was happening.
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