GALLIPOLI COMPLETELY EVACUATED

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2666, 11 January 1916, Page 5

GALLIPOLI COMPLETELY EVACUATED

' clever withdrawal from CAPE BELLES . RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE • CONTINUES , ■ VICTORIOUS ADVANCE IN BUEOWIA' BRITISH BATTLESHIP MINED ' . ABANDONED WITHOUT LOSS OF LIFE ■ ' . SHARP FIGHTING' IN . ALSACE. ! ■ . The latest surprise from the Near East is the announcement of the complete evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula by the skilful withdrawal, of the Allies' troops from Cape Helles with but a single casualty to personnel and the deliberate destruction by the departing . troops of 17 worn-out guns. The successful completion of the'evacuation is-credited by Sir Charles Monro ,to the clever generalship of Sir William Birdwood and : General! Davies, brilliantly seconded by Admiral de Roebeck and the Navy. Coincident with this news are rumours .from various sources of an expected attack by the enemy on the Allies' position at Salonika, within tile next two weeks. King Constantino is .worried a'bout his army, and the prospective difficulty of holding in his restive people during the approaching , crisis, which may involve an invasion of Bulgar fiends and its attendant horrors— the spark which will explode the mine. Further to the north the great Russian'.offensive in Bukowiiia is being vigorously maintained, and the enemy is hurriedly reinforcing with troops from other fronts. There has been a naval skirmish in the Baltic, where the elusive Goeben hat; been engaged by the, Russians with the usual result —the escape of the fugitive battle-cruiser behind the mined defences of the Bosphorus. There has been sharp fighting in Alsace, and the famous position on battle-scarred Hartmann's Wieler Kopf has again changed hands—so say the Germans. The Allies' report indicates the evacuation of an adjacent position, Hirtzenistein, aot the Kopf itself.