TURKS’ ENORMOUS LOSSES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3977, 9 July 1915, Page 5

TURKS’ ENORMOUS LOSSES.

ESTIMATED AT 180,000. GENERAL ATTACK ON MONDAY LAST. THE ENEMY’S EDUCES DECIMATED. ' v LONDON, July T. The “Daily News’ ” Athens correspondent .states that advices have been received from Constantinople that the Turkish losses in Gallipoli total 180,000. Aji official Ereifch communique states:— , f l At the Dardanelles the Turkish general attack on Monday wy-s. the most important yet made. At 4 o clock in the morn■afckthev opened with extremely heavy artillery fire against ou line and attempted several infantr- attacks, none of which Our artillery decimated them with rifle fire and machmeguns and mowed dc-.fn meat of the rest of the Turks strewn over the iieU 'The Turkish Asiatic batteries continuously co-operated, also aeroplanes, hombiny ourliues, a Turkish battleship also firing WM |m^^ed'Sp&l“t a sightffi‘ > 'bimbed-the aerodrome “The Allied ships have all left our shore. We have started using a small, roughly-made n ne’thrower. The mine is fitted with wmgs and loaded with S kilos of melinite. It produces extraordinary results. One hurled a whole'Turkish company out Mr Tennant in the House of Commons, said there were ade ouote aiTimkments at Ale iandria for the treatment of wounded. Seven military and three r.ival hospitalMups were plying beM tween the Dardanelles and Alexandria and Jintayi.