GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 74, 21 December 1918, Page 7

GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN

■ WITHDRAWAL' OX EVIS OF I ;. : VICTORY. ■ Tho failure of the Allied l.aval attaj on the Dardanelles lias.-neveF-bcen ad (l uately ehronided-un il. »i the a pearance of the narrative cl the tmt States;;Jlinieter atCoiisUntinople, M Morgeuthau,,in"LandamM\ater (be 'it becomes apparent. th ; Lewus.no failure, and that 2, armon piercing-shells only ny MweenJ Allied fleets .and a clear road throuf the Straits to Constantinople. . - , "T returned,"-he writes, to Cousin, tinople/and two days-later, on IN 18, the Allied fleet uiadc its greijtet tack. As all the world knows, that a ck moved disastrous to Hie Allies- II outcome was the sinking oi the Bouvo Hie Ocean, and the Irresistible, and t crippling of four other■ v«*l Of the 16 shii« ensaged in this bait, of thc-lSth, seven were thus put to poririlv or permanently on ol «ctm Nalurally, the Germans and hirKb i ; ■ oiced oveV this victory. But let us sa "nio that the Allieslnul leturned, « , Ihc inor.ii.is of the 19th. wlwhtjou Si T^sis.^^l le at- Kilid.nl-Bnhr, whioh was tl , lin defence on the Kurope.,nMde the, were prcoise.lv ten. 'I should achise yo Z U HP at fi oVlnck 10-mornwr mon g'Riid General Mortens 'ami t«ke t Ihnltolian Kills Tk.l ' «l«« •nniiiir to do. he troops al i.ll rue to, tificitioiis lind their orders to man tl; Ss nniil "he -Ustshrfl had been fire Hi then aba.ndon the forts. Once the defence* became helpless the proble 0 To Allied jloel-. wonld h»« toon I sininlo one. The only bar to their pn B«s'f would have been the minefiel( which .stretched from a point atot t» miles north of Erenkem to_ Kilid-i i, hr. But the Allied fleet nad plent of niine-sweepers, which -ould have mad n channel in a few hours. >°'t' 1 . c Tchanalc there were a few guns, but the were of the 1878 model, and could , no ,>rojectile S that, joiild mere I modern armour-plate. North , -of Pom Narara there were onlv w.i.batteries nnd both dated from 1S3o! Thus, onq haviiiß silenced the outer .Straits, thci) was nothins to bar tlv? passage to Un staiilinople except the Gcrm.in ami Turk ish warships. Tho Goeben vns the ontj first-class fighting ehin ui cither m\ and it \voiild-:nqt ha.ve lasted Igjigtiigain? •M-.hß- Queen Elizabetli. ; Tims ,the.-,v\llici fleet would-have appeivred before Constall tinople on the moruing of the , 30th!'- j