All day the Turks bombarded this battery with a cross-fire of shrapnel and rifle-bullets which did not touch our trench but cut off our return to Velestinos.
Sooner than pass through this crossfire, all day we crouched in the trench until about sunset, when it came on to rain.

We exclaimed with dismay.

We had neglected to bring our ponchos.

"If we don't get back to the village at once," we assured each other, "we will get wet!" So we raced through half a mile of falling shells and bullets and, before the rain fell, got under cover.

Then Bass said: "For twelve hours we stuck to that trench because we were afraid if we left it we would be killed.