THE GALLIPOLI ADVENTURE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2659, 3 January 1916, Page 5

THE GALLIPOLI ADVENTURE

SIR lAN HAMILTON SPEAKS "IF WE HAD HAD MEN AND MUNITIONS WE WOULD HAVE WON " A By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright " (Rec. January -2, 5.5 p.m.) London, January 1. Sir lan Hamilton, ill an address to wounded soldiers, said: "The time has not yet come when the Gallipoli expedition can be jeaUßfla for its inili« tary and moral value. Wo are too close, but the day will com# when it will

bo seen in true perspective. When tho historian reviews it he will discover that the expedition produced a great and lasting impression for good upon the course of the war." Sir lan .Hamilton, speaking witli emotion, added: "Men. I believe and you believe, if we had had munitions and men we would have won through to Constantinople." TURKISH ASIATIC COAST BOMBARDED, (Rec. January 2, 5.5 p.m.) Paris, January 1. ■A French communique says: "Our heavy artillery violently bombarded the Turkish Asiatic coast, damaging several guns and exploding an ammunition depot." TURKS CLAIM TO HAVE DAMAGED H.M.S. SWIFTSURE. (Rec. January 2, 5.5 p.m.) J London, January 1. 'A Turkish official message says: "The Turkish batteries successfully bombarded the allied positions near Seddul-Bahr. on December 30, "Our aeroplanes bombarded the British waTship Swiftsure, formerly, the Constitution, bought from Chile in 1908. The damage is unknown." MORE CLAIMS OF SUCCESS BY; THE TURKS. (Rec. January 1, 8.40 a.m.)' London, January I'. A Turkish official message says: "While bombing near Seddul-Bahr two enemy vessels bombarded the central positions on December 28. ''The French battleship which bombarded the Anatolian coast was hit by Turkish shells and wiEhdrew in smoito and flames,' "Turkish seaplanes bombarded the Seddul-Bahr camp, causing a fire." THE BOOTY FOUND AT ANZAC- AND SUVLA BAY. (Reo. January 2, 5.5 p.m.) London, December 31. A German wireless message states that a correspondent of the "Lokal. Anzeiger" the abandoned camps at Anafarta and the depots at Kemiklitiman. He spates that everywhere there were signs of a hurried retreat, there being many unburied dead soldiers, also enormous quantities of preserved meat, bacon, flour, and rubber tires. Suvla Bay presented a wonderful picture. Thero were four stranded British transports, and depots filled to the ceiling with stores. The Turks are counting the booty and are finding ammunition which was thrown into the water. '