COLONIALS AT GALLIPOLI

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2507, 7 July 1915, Page 7

COLONIALS AT GALLIPOLI

SIR lAN HAMILTON'S .STORY ". HOW THE LANDING'WAS ' PLANNED . ■ < PIRATE, "OUTWITTED ' MERCHANT SKIPPER'S HEROIC GRAVE WARNING' AGAINST OVER ■ CONFIDENCE .' . The most interesting feature of the war new's to-day is ' Sir lan fiamilton's story-of tho work of the Colonials in the battle on Gal-. ■ lipoli on June 29, and also his survey of the factors which induced him to adopt the plan of attack for the landing of his army on the Peninsula/which was achieved successfully,, though with necessarily severe casualties to. the Colonials at Gaba Tepa. , In the Western theatre tho French have sustained a, heavy, assault in the region of Bois Le Pretre, where the Germans managed to regain a footing at/one pointy Their ' main attack, however, was a; costly' failure. There is very little news ; from, the Eastern theatre, / while the position in the Austro-Italian . theatre is also veiled at present. The clamour for men and muni- , ; tions has spread throughout the British Empire, and one pf the Australian State Ministers, speaking from knowledge which he could not ■ . make public, Has uttered a grave warning against over-confidence. •"Britain," 1 lie.says, "is not so strpng as'we imagined her to be.": The -pirate submarine war has become very active again, and several losses to shipping 1 are reported. There is also a story of -a steamer captain's gallantry in outwitting, at the cost of his life and several of his crew, a pirate which fought for four hours to get the better of .. him. ...