Chapter I: Preface

The narrative of the Zionists in Gallipoli has been written during the enforced idleness of the past month--a month which has been spent in endeavouring to recover sufficient health and strength to enable me to take a further, and, I trust, a more useful, hand in the Great Drama now approaching its climax.

In the following pages I have "set down nought in malice," neither have I given a word of praise where praise is not due--and more than due. My relations with those with whom I came into contact were excellent, and on the very rare occasions when they were otherwise, it was not due to any seeking of mine, but, unfortunately, my temperament is not such that I can suffer fools gladly.

My story is one of actual happenings, told just as I saw them with some suggestions thrown in, and if from these a hint is taken here and there by those in the "Seats of the Mighty," then so much the better for our Cause.

My chief object in writing this book is to interest the Hebrew nation in the fortunes of the Zionists and show them of what their Russian brothers are capable, even under the command of an alien in race and religion. Those who have the patience to follow me through these pages will, of course, see that I am not by any means an alien in sympathy and admiration for the people who have given to the world some of its greatest men, not to mention The Man who has so profoundly changed the world's outlook.

LONDON, 1916.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I INTRODUCTION 17
II GENERAL POLICY OF THE DARDANELLES CAMPAIGN 32
III STRATEGY AND TACTICS OF THE DARDANELLES CAMPAIGN 37
IV FORMATION OF THE ZION MULE CORPS 46
V ARRIVAL AT LEMNOS 62
VI A STRENUOUS NIGHT 72
VII DESCRIPTION OF SOUTHERN GALLIPOLI 85
VIII A HOMERIC CONFLICT 89
IX THE ZION MULE CORPS LAND IN GALLIPOLI 106
X A NIGHT UP THE GULLY RAVINE 120
XI HOW ZION MULES UPSET TURKISH PLANS 127
XII LIFE IN OUR NEW CAMP 136
XIII A MAY BATTLE 147
XIV GENERAL D'AMADE AND THE CORPS EXPÉDITIONNAIRE D'ORIENT 154
XV VARIOUS BOMBARDMENTS 159
XVI THE COMING OF THE GERMAN SUBMARINES 166
XVII TRENCH WARFARE IN GALLIPOLI 170
XVIII GUNS AND STAFF 182
XIX VISITS TO THE TRENCHES 188
XX FLIES, DUST AND BATTLE 195
XXI WORK OF THE ZION MULE CORPS 203
XXII THE AUSTRALIANS AND NEW ZEALANDERS 210
XXIII VOYAGE TO EGYPT 222
XXIV RECRUITING IN EGYPT 228
XXV LIFE IN EGYPT 234
XXVI RETURN TO GALLIPOLI 244
XXVII BEELZEBUB 252
XXVIII A FEAT IN GUNNERY 259
XXIX THE FINDING OF THE SHIELD OF DAVID 269
XXX BACK TO ENGLAND 277
XXXI THE EVACUATION 291
APPENDIX 297

ILLUSTRATIONS

THE HOLLOWED HAND GIVES A VERY GOOD IDEA OF
THE APPEARANCE OF THE COUNTRY _Frontispiece_
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THE DARDANELLES, SEA OF MARMORA AND BOSPHORUS 17
BADGE OF THE ZION MULE CORPS (THE SHIELD OF DAVID) 270

WITH THE ZIONISTS IN GALLIPOLI

WITH THE ZIONISTS IN GALLIPOLI