WITH THE COLONIALS IN GALLIPOLI

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2483, 9 June 1915, Page 5

WITH THE COLONIALS IN GALLIPOLI

MORE ABOUT TURKISH ATROCITIES STORIES BY THE WOUNDED IN HOSPITAL Sydnoy, .Tune 8. Captain Bean (Australian correspondent), cabling from Giillipoli, refers to ill- atrocitios and savs that tho principal report which enabled a test to bo made proved 'untrue. The stories that the Turks yore using explosive bullets were without foundation. They were duo to the Australasians misunderstanding the curious double crock of the Mnu&or mlll*. STORIES OF TURKISH ATROCITIES (Rev. June S, 9.t0 p.m.) Sydney, .fune 8 Mr Halloran the "Sun's" special correspondent- with t ho Australians, describing the lighting at (i.c Dardanelles. says that, feeling is .grmvins ho,l over the Turkish atrocities. He says : 'M <> fonk prisoners aftenvnn.ls hut not a |ho "tart So unspeakable arc the Turkish barbarities that we feol w<% h?w a <H U» Vh!'* *Uirm H=H riff. Wr? i>Mn winner frum four 0 clpck m lh« mn\< uig till ttuee o'clock itt the afternoon.

"Oil Sunday wo landed one little bugler, who was treacherously knifed, i This, it is said, so incensed some of the Australians that when forty Turkish prisoners were being brought along tlicv shouldered the escort aside, and gavo everv Turk a' bullet." NEW ZEALANDER'S "HARD LUCK.'i (Rcc. June 8. 9.15 p.m.) , Sydney, Juno 8. Charles Crispin, of tho Wellington Infantry, who was wonndnd at tho Dardanelles. says: "Tho Turks ran before the New Zealandcrs' charge like hares. Tlioy used explosive bullets, which mado awful wounds. He described his duck as "rotten." lie trained for eight months, and was Iniockcxl over after five hours' fightina." FRENCH MINELAYER BLOWN- UP. Paris, June 7: : Official.—The French minelayer Casabianca. struck a mine and sank at the sntranco to a bay in the Aegean Sea. A British vesseli picked up the captain, one officer, and sixty-four men. It is possible that other survivors lauded and were made prisoners by the Turks. KRUPP WORKS AT CONSTANTINOPLE. , Athens, Jnua 7Krupps have established a large factory for shells and explosives at Constantinople, employing 4003 German workmen. COMPLIMENTS FROM NAVY AND ARMY CHIEFS. < (Rec. June 8. 8.15 p.m.) ' Sydney, Jnne 8. Sir Edmund Barton has sent a cablegram stating that Lord Fishor and Lord Kitchener had authorised him to say that the Australian end New Zealand troops were admirable. BARRELS OF GERMAN GAS-BOMBS FOR TURKEY. (Reo. June 8, 8.50 p.m.) Rome, June 7. Large consignments of barrels, bup posed to contain beer, consigned from Germany to Turkey, were detained at Bukarest. They contained asphyxiating ' gas-bombs. Germany disclaims all responsibility for them.