THE DARDANELLES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 27, 1 June 1915, Page 5

THE DARDANELLES

THE TWENTY-EIGHTH LIST. Unhid Pekbi AsnociATin.i Sydney, May 3f. The 28th Dardanelles casualty list is : Killed in Action.—Sergeants Dunkinson, Rainbow, Rea; Corporals Elleston, Ferkuson, Reid; Privates Bird, Clarke, Connel, Dodd, Golborne, Donellan, Connelly, Fallon, Golden, Hansen, Hughes. Hardy, Hargrave, Jackson, Jones, James. King, Hemp, Ledwidge, Lowen, Laing, Lawton, Longstaff, Manus, McLeod, Mclnnes, McShane, Pavey, R. Smith. A. Thomson, W. Thomson, Turner, Waters, Young. Died of Wounds—Lieutenant Watts, Private Breakell. Died of Sunstroke ar Sea.—Private Mi/.en.

Two hundred and ninety-two noncommissioned officers and men wounded. TWO NEW ZEALANDERS DEAD. Wellington, May 31. The Defence authorities received advice to-day of the death in the Egpytlan Army Hospital on the 26th inst., from . enteric fever, of Sapper John Ernest Bosevear (Engineers), next-of-kin, Ernest Rosevear "Bullarook," Castle Street, Dunedin, father.

The department is also advised that Lieut. P. Logan (son of Colonel Logan) died, and was buried at sea on the 20th inst.

WELLINGTON NATIVE'S END.

(Received 10.15 a.m.) Sydney, June 1

Private W. S. Coleman, who was killed at the Dardanelles, was born in Welllington, and his parents' now reside at Pyrmont.

THE LOST BATTLESHIPS.

London, May 31

The Admiralty report that the casualties in the loss of the battleship Triumph were three officers and eleven men killed and forty-two missing.

On the Majestic two were killed, forty-seven are missing, and it is believed a number are dead.

TURKISH ATTACK REPULSED.

London. May 31

.Milylone reports the Allies attacked the Turks near Gaba Tepe, and occupied a front of two kilometres. The Turks endeavored to recover the lost positions, but were repulsed with severe losses.

OPERATIONS IN ASIA MINOR.

Athens, May 31

A pinnace from the French battleship Jean d'Arc, reconnoitring the villages near Castle Lorizo, in Asia Minor, was fired at by the inhabitants and several of the crew were killed. The Jean d'Arc bombarded and destroyed a number of villages and blew up several benzine depots and seized a cargo of benzine.

AIDED BY THE FLEET.

ADVANCING AGAINST CALLIPOLI (Received 9.40 a.m.) London., May 31. The Central News' correspondent at Athens reports that the Allies continue to advance against the mam positions at Gallipoli, being aided by the fleet. FIGHTING THE TURK. ALLIES' ACCURATE GUNNERY. THE ROUT OF THE ENEMY. (Received 9.45 a.m.) London, May 31. The Press Bureau, reporting on the Dardanelles action, states: We detected the enemy working under one of our posts on the 28th, and Ave successfully exploded a counter-mine. The Turks then effected a lodgment in a vacant trench. We made a counterattack with the bayonet and re-cap-tured the firing-line trenches, whereupon the Turks in the supporting trenches surrendered. Meanwhile heavy columns advanced in the bright moonlight, • and our gunners, with an accurate crossfire, caused the demoralisation of the Turks, whose second line of bom I) throwers flung their missiles into their own first line, thus completing their rout. The enemy's casualties were at least two thousand, while ours were three hundred. The same night the Turks unsuccessfully attempted to recapture the position. The French captured an important redoubt on the Turks' extreme right on the 28th, and repulsed subsequent attacks.