LATEST NEWS OF LANDING OPERATIONS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2450, 1 May 1915, Page 7

LATEST NEWS OF LANDING OPERATIONS

TREATMENT OF PRISONERS OF: WAR

TURKISH GARRISONS BETWEEN TWO FIRES ..J ' "••■&] (Rec. May; 1, 1.35 a.m.) /' \ Tenedos, 'April-SO. On Thursday a demonstration and landing on the Plain of Troy enabled tlie French to capture 8000 Turks, including their German officers. Not a few of tho Turks are suffering from revolver-wounds, inflicted b$ German officers driving them to attack or desperately endeavouring to prevent thom from retreating. One landing was effected by a comio ruse. Covered by the vigorous firo of the battleships, one thousand donkeys, with dummy baggage and mounted with air-guns, were landed at a certain, spot. The Germans immediately, diverted a strong force to the spot. Meanwhile the roal landing was effected some distance up _ the coast. The donkeys were annihilated. A strong force of British-troops established across the narrowest part of the Peninsula cut off the Turkish garrisons between Kilid Bahr 'and Capei Helles. , The aviators rendered valuable assistance in locating ..the Turkish posw tions, destroying the Seamander Bridgo near Ezine, and a large depot Aros Ezine. COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE CENSORSHIP CURIOUS • CONFLICT OP PROTESTS. (Reo, 'April 30, 8.25 p.m.), ; London, April 30. The newspapers complain thai they are not allowed to know the details of the Australians' and New Zealanders' gallantry in the Dardanelles, which were published in Australia and New Zealand. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS IN FEDERAL PARLIAMENT, (Rec. 'April 80, 11.20 p.m.) Melbourne, April 80. In the Federal House, Mr. Fisher (the Prime Minister), replying to pressing demands for further information about the Australians .in Turkey, said that he had asked the Imperial 'authorities to supply the earliest information, which would be made public as soon as it arrived, but the Government must stand by the British Army authorities in all their wishes, and refrain from saying what they might wish to bo left unsaid. In the Federal Senate, Mr. O'Keefe urged that an immediate protest be sent to the British authorities against the present system of censoring news about the Australians' in the Dardanelles. The incongruities of the censorship, he said, were causing great anxiety. . ' Senator Pearce (Defenco Minister) replied that no exception'was possible in regard to the strict censoring of news till the troops had reached their objective. Tho Government, however, objected to news appearing iu British.' or European papers being censored out of the Australian papers. This would bo brought under the notico of tho Imperial authorities. PRESS COMMENT IN LONDON (Rec. April 30, 11.20 p.m.) _ London, April 30. The "Times," in a leading article regarding the Government's congratulations to the Commonwealth, states that the Australians' gallantry was 1 very, grateful news to tho British people. Nothing moved the .Mother Country more than the devotion of her daughter nations. "We see in it the best auguries for the lofty ideals .and spiritual traditions of the race. The British people! want to know why news available in Melbourne and Wellington was "not announced in London." The "Daily Mail" complains that Britain has not yet been allowed to hear asything of tho Australians' or New Zealanders' magnificent serviceß in the Dardanelles. ROYAL MESSAGE TO NEW ZEALAND ~ "SPLENDID CONDUCT AND BRAVERY" OF OUR TROOPS., His Excellency the Governor informs the Prime Minister (the Right Hon.W. F. Massoy) that he has received tho following telegram from His Majesty; the King: — ' ~ "I heartily congratulate you upon the splendid conduct and bravery displayed by the New Zealand troops at the Dardanelles, who have indeed proved themselves worthy sons of the Empire.—George R." ■ His Excellency has replied as follows "On behalf of myself, my Government, and the people of New Zealand, I desire respectfully to thank. Your Majesty for your most • gracious message. Wo are all proud of the manner in which the New Zealand troops have acquitted themselves, and we eagerly look forward to hearing further details of the operations in the Dardanelles.— Liverpool." ...

oners throughout had beem. T>eyon3 praise. The conduct of the QermaJis was revolting, and showed the spirit of brutality in its naked hideousness. Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, said: "Mere publicity of our protest has been of no avail; on the contrary, the more we have protested the more the Germans might have been tempted to think they were exasperating public feeling in Britain. The'most practical of the steps taken was .the invoking- of the American-Government's good offices. This had had the effect of considerably alleviating and mitigating the most' severe hardships."—"Times" and Sydi ney "Sim" services. - . INDIGNANT PROTEST BY THE v "MORNING. POST." (Rec. May i, 0.15; a.m.)' ' ' London, April 30. The "Morning Post" says that there can be no doubt- of the Dominions'' loyalty. They will co-operate to attach' German property throughout the Empire as reprisals for the treatment of prisoners. Pqpular opinion is rising at the nameless horrors which have been recorded. Public demonstrations should be organised throughout the Empire to demand that the Government should do something more, than utter platitudes.-

GERMAN SUBMARINE CREWS ADMIRALTY'S POLICY ' London, April 29. It is announced that tlie Admiralty's policy German prisoners is not in tie _ nature of a reprisal, but an expression of tlie highest moral disapproval of German methods. Crews of submarines were being treated in accordance. with The Hague rules — "Times" and Sydney "Sun" .services. STATEMENT IN PARLIAMENT. POLICY OF SEGREGATION. London, April 29. Dr. MacNamara (Parliamentary Secretary tothe Admiralty), replying to a question in the House of Commons, said that the captured crews of German submarines were not kept in solitary con- 1 finement. They received similar treatment to other prisoners of war, except that they wore kept separate from the other-prisoners. Mr. Joynson Hicks (Unionist) hoped that the answer would be forwarded-to America for publication in Germany. CALCULATED CRUELTY. BRITAIN'S PROTEST UNAVAILING. London, April 29. The Hon. Neil Primrose; speaking in the House of Commons, said'that tie Government had protested against the treatment of British prisoners by he Germans, but the protests had ; not done much good. The treatment was of a oalculatedly cruel character. The Government had been reliably informed that the coats of prisoners had almost invariably been taken off and spat upon, without remonstration by the guards. Despite insults, the bearing of the pris-