(3) On the night of June 29 and 30 the Turks, acting, as we afterwards
ascertained, under the direct personal order of Enver Pasha, to drive
us all into the sea, made a big attack on the Australian and New
Zealand Army Corps, principally on that portion of the line which was
under the command of Major-General Sir A. J. Godley. From midnight
till 1.30 a.m. a fire of musketry and guns of greatest intensity was
poured upon our trenches. A heavy column then advanced to the assault,
and was completely crumpled up by the musketry and machine-guns of the
7th and 8th Light Horse. An hour later another grand attack took place
against our left and left centre, and was equally cut to pieces by our
artillery and rifle fire. The enemy's casualties may be judged by the
fact that in areas directly exposed to view between 400 and 500 were
actually seen to fall.
On the evening of this day, June 30, the Mediterranean Expeditionary
Force suffered grievous loss owing to the wounding of General Gouraud
by a shell. This calamity, for I count it nothing less, brings us down
to the beginning of the month of July.
The command of the Corps Expéditionnaire français d'Orient was then
taken over by General Bailloud, at which point I shall close my
despatch.
[Illustration: BRIGADIER-GENERAL R. W. MELVILLE JACKSON, C.B., C.M.G.
(_To face page 78._)]