BRILLIANT SUCCESS BY OUR COLONIALS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2478, 3 June 1915, Page 5

BRILLIANT SUCCESS BY OUR COLONIALS

FRENCH REGIMENT CAPTURES A FORT SUBMARINE PANIC IN CONSTANTINOPLE TWO TURKISH TEANSPOETS SUNK (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) , Paris, June 1. ■ Official.—At the Dardanelles small combats have been of almost daily occurrence, and all havo ended in favour of the Allies. On the western slope of the Kereveo Valley volunteers belonging to a French colonial regiment captured a little fort on the extremity of tho enemy's lino and dominating the trenches. The advance was so rapid that the defenders were surprised, and fled without resisting. Largo bodies of Turks twice coun-ter-attacked, but were repulsed, losing heavily. The British (Australasians) had a brilliant success, repulsing a violent assault near Gnba. Tepe. « ALLIES NEARLY SURROUNDED. (Rec. June 2, 11.30 p.m.) Athens, June 2. The Allies were nearly surrounded by the Turks, who broke through tho British lilies between Eskimozakerc and Kaltopn. A warship hurrying up dispersed tho enemy, tho majority of whom were annihilated. TOLD BY TURKISH PRISONERS i ENEMY'S LOSSES TERRIBLY HEAVY. London, June 1. 'The Press Bureau states:—Prisoners who have arrived from Egypt declare that the Turkish losses on Gallipoli Peninsula wore terribly heavy. Tho 20th Regiment was almost annihilated. All the officers except the colonel were killed or captured. The loth aud uGth Regiments suffered almost as severely. The loss of officers was generally very heavy; the gaps have had to be filled up by naval officers and military cadets. The attacks on Krithia were mostly costly for the Turks. Liinan Pasha ordered an attack at night with empty magazines, the Turks using the bayonet only. The Allies' flares and searchlights repeatedly caught them in close formation, and machine gun and rifle fire at point-blank range punished them terribly. A captured officer said that only 120 inen could be collected out of a regiment originally a thousand strong. The Allies' mountain guns more than once caught tho Turks when they were assembling for an attack, and kypt them for several minutes under shrapnel fire inflicting heavy losses. An Arab officer said:—"The landing was costly and difficult, but when the Allies were established on the Feninsula it was our turn to suffer heavier losses." He was captured a fortnight ago. The Turkish losses were then at least 40,000 killed and wounded. ' Other prisoners stated that two Turkish battalions attacked each other at Gaba Tepo, losing heavily, and ultimately stampeding. The British ma-chine-gun fire was particularly well directed, but the naval guns were most effective, the heaviest sheik, bursting in the trenches, paralysed tho men nearby. Some of the prisoners admit that they did not know in the least why Euver Pnsha and Talait Bey went to war.Others curse the Germans heartily. TURKISH ATROCITIES IN GALLIPOLI WOUNDED FUSILIERS BURIED ALIVE. Fremantlo, June 2. In the mails by the Medina, Router's Cairo Agent says that the wounded bring back stories of Turkish atrocities on Gallipoli. The worst is told by the Dublin Fusiliers, who state that six of their wounded comrades were buried alive. / A New Zealandcr who was badly wounded was recovering consciousness, when he found a Turk with a long knifo bending over him. He closed his eyes and remained motionless. The Turk, ovidently thinking him to bo dead, cut his bootlaces, took bis boots, and departed. A New Zealand officer picked up an unexploded Turkish shell on tho beach and found it filled with sawdust; also, several clips of empty cartridges. At a critical moment of the fighting, when all the officers were out of action, an Australian doctor headed tho remaining men, numbering thirty, aud charged and routed several hundred Turks. TREACHEROUS ACT BY A GERMAN CONSUL. Paris, June 1. Official.—The German Consul at Haifa, Syria, incited Turkish soldiers to fire upon boats carrying Parlementaires,and also had the graves of Napoleon's soldiers desecrated. A French cruiser bombarded and destroyed the German Consulate. No other building was hit. SUBMARINE TERROR IN THE SEA OF MARMORA BRITISH TORPEDOER SINKS TWO MORE TRANSPORTS. „ , . London, June 1. Reuter's Agency reports that a British submarine torpedoed two Turkish transports in the Sea of Marmora. One was laden with troops. (Rec. June 2, 11.45 p.m.) , . , London, June 2. Reuter's Athens, correspondent states that both the transports i which ■were sunk in the Sea- of Marmora by the British submarine were carrying troops for the Dardanelles. . WIDESPREAD PANIC IN CONSTANTINOPLE. Constantinople advices state that the Turkish defeats i/th^VrXjl'les and the British submarine s exploits at tho arsenal and wharf havo intensified the gloom and accentuated the feeling in favour of opening the "Straits and negotiating for peace Tho submarine caused widespread panio, the people shouting. "The Russians are coming!" Troops aboard the transports insisted on landing, but tho officers drew their swords and prevented thorn from doing so. They eventually disembarked. ' TURKISH TRANSPORTATION INTERRUPTED. t m. Athens, June 1. Tho transportation of Turkish troops to tho Dardanelles has been intarrupted owing to tlio presence of a British submarine before Constantinople. GERMAN SUBMARINE OFF LEMNOS ATTACKED BY BRITISH WARSHIPS.

~ . Atlions, Juno 1. British warships attacKed a German submarine at I,cmnos. The submarine dived ami disappeared. London, Juno 1. Official.—All tin? officers of the battleship Majestic, torpedoed and sunk by a submarine of! Gallipoli Peninsula, were saved. (Rcc. June 2, 11.30 p.m.) , , , Athoni, June 3, H. 16 reported that CJerma» eubuiarines are ui ths vicinity of tha Dar« dandies