THE DARDANELLES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 34, 10 June 1915, Page 5

THE DARDANELLES

OUR BOYS PUSH ON. SHAKING UP THE TURKS. U.rrnro Pbkbi Association. , London, June 9. The Daily Chronicle's Athens correspondent says the general offensive at the Dardanelles continues with most important results. The Australians and New Zealanders at Sari Bari are fighting magnificently and scoring well. Early on Saturday the southern forces brilliantly carried a gully which the Turks held. A force of our men got into the enemy with bayonets, and few of the Turks escaped. Altogether an advance of three miles was registered by the Allies on the 6th, and fchey established themselves on the slopes three paces from the Turks, whose morale is badly shaken.

BOMBING CALLIPOLI. BRITISH SEAPLANES ATTACK SOLDIERY AND TRANSPORT. Bucharest, June ,9. British seaplanes bombed tho Akbasch, in Gallipoh Harbor, killing throe and wounding twelve .soldiers, also severely damaging transport material. 'i IN THE SEA OF MARMORA. THROUGH THE DARDANELLES. THE U 23 AT GOLDEN HORN. Bucharest, June 9. "The submarine U 23, which destroyed the Triumph and Majestic, has arrived at the Golden Horn, the harbor ot Constantinople. Jty r ' / • HOLDING A TRENCH. A TROOPERS STORY. (Received 11.15 a.m.) Sydney, June 10. Private Carroll, wounded at the Dardanelles, writing to a friend ,says:— After landing, the platoons rushed and Occupied a trench on a hilltop which they' had to hold from Sunday morning until Tuesday night, against continuous machine-gun fire and, constant rushes. On Monday night the ' enemy shifted big guns and enfiladed us and fairly blew the trench to pie- \ can. On Thursday they charged and we passed the word to die fighting. Our fire heaped them up like rabbits in our trench and they got all but oho of us, including our officers. For fully twenty minutes only one man was on his feet. We were then reinforced. We had done our duty and held the position. Only sixty of us were in tho trench.

"QUINN'S POST." HOW THE COLONIALS BEHAVED. VON SANDERS' ATTACKS. (Received 10 a.m.) Sydney, June 10. Captain Bean, cabling from Alexandria on June Bth, says:—Fighting is confined to a part of the line known 'as; "Quinn's Post." The Turks sapped up to two holes outside the trenches and caused mine explosions, which turned them into bomb-proof shelters. Two parties of Light Horse attacked and occupied these shelters, but were only able to retain one. A trench beyond'our left/ which the New Zealanders took, was held for forty-eight hours, but afterwards the enfilading by artillery made it untenable and the New Zealanders retired to their old positions. Von Sanders directed the attack one May 19th, and our men say they only hope he directs some more. All the men are in splendid fettle and well fed.