THE DARDANELLES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 28, 2 June 1915, Page 5

THE DARDANELLES

j NEWS BY MAIL. I TURKISH ATROCITIES ALLEGED. A BRAVE DOCTOR. (Received 9.35 a.m.) Freemantle June 2. In the mails by the Medina, Renter's Cairo Agency says the wounded briii}/ back stories of Turkish atrocities at Gallipoli. The worst are given by Dublin Kusiliers, who state that ■six wounded comrades were buried alive. A New Zcalander who was badly wounded recovering consciousness found a Turk with a long knife bending over him. He closed his eyes and remained motionless. The Turk evidently thinking the soldier dead, cut his bootlaces and took his boots and departed.

A New Zealand officer picked up an unexploded Turkish shell on the beach, filled with sawdust and several clips of empty cartridges.

v At a critical moment in the fighting, when all the officers were out of 'action, an Australian doctor headed ' | the remaining men numbering thirty, land charged and routed several hundred Turks. ! WARSHIPS v. SUBMARINE. (Received 9.15 a:m.) Athens, June 1. British warships attacked a German submarine at Lemiios but it • dived and disappeared. THE FORTY-SIXTH LIST. KILLED IN ACTION. (May 7th to 10th.) Wellington Battalion. Private Harry Elliott M. Broome. Private H. Alan Brown. Private Herbert W. Brown. Lance-Corporal James Campbell. Private Frank T. Chapman. Corporal Claude Dustin. Private Douglas W. Gray. Corporal Ernest J. Ireland. Private Bernard H. Monk. Private Justin P. McCarthy. Private Itoy A. McNab. Private William A. Nielson. Private George P. Pitt. Private Samuel Reynolds. Private John Ernest Smith. Private George V. Thomas. PREVIOUSLY REPORTED WOUNDED NOW KILLED. Wellington Battalion, Corporal Keble R. Bowden. Lance-Corporal Charles V. McDonald. Private Norman H. Wood. DIED OF WOUNDS. Wellington Battalion. Private Hedley Bryant. Private Walter Jones. Private Robert Myhill. Otago Battalion. Private William A. Mitchell. WOUNDED. Wellington Battalion. Private Wallace W. Hansford. Sergeant William T. Higgott. DANGEROUSLY ILL. Canterbury Battalion. Sergeant Edward I). Evan. Auckland Battalion, Private Colin Mel. Banbury. PREVIOUS REPORTED WOUNDED NOW REPORTED UNHURT. Wellington Battalion. Private John Bloor. Lance-Corporal George' McAneny. Sydney, June 1. The Dardanelles casualty list includes Private R. A. Adair (dangerously ill), and Private W. T. Watson (.wounded), New Zealanders. Correction: Lance-Corporal Stupart, not Stuart, was killed. London, June 1.

The British casualty list, including the Dardanelles, from April 20th till May 21th, is 992 officers killed and 2279 wounded. From April 14th till May 14th, 5478 non-commissioned officer., alio men Killed, 19,018 wounded, and -'5131 taken prisoner. REFERENCES TO THE DECEASED (Received 9.35 a.m.) Sydney, June 2. Captain Wallack, who was killed at tbe Dardanelles, was a sou ol Colonel Wallack, Now South Wales commandant. The second son of Justice Street was also included in tlio casualties.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. London, Juno 1. Mitylene reports that British warships shelled Aviali, where an enemy submarine shelter was reported. Paris, May 31. Rear-Admiral Guepratte had a miraculous escape at the Dardanelles. A shell penetrated his cabin on the Jaureqmbarry and missed his head by inches, but destroyed everything in the vicinity. Bis uniform, which he was about to don, was torn to shreds, but Rear-Admiral Guepratte escaped