THE DARDANELLES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 37, 14 June 1915, Page 5

THE DARDANELLES

THE ATTACK ON MAIDOS. ALLIES DOMINATE SITUATION. j Dnitib Pejoir AHKOOJavio* Athens, June 11. The Allies, after .sueeessive attacks Occupied on Wednesday the loigbis dominating Maidox. There was a tierce engagement between the Allies and the enemy night and day, on June Bth, the Allies, aeroplanes scouting the firing line. I London, June 12. Renter's Athens correspondent says the Allies are firmly established. All have been brought up to strength with needful stores. The Australians and New Zealanders are in the best of spirits. I Mr Martin Donohue (the war correspondent) says Turkey is realising the hopelessness of the position indirectly conveyed by Italy, and it is finkey's intention not to declare war. This foreshadows the Porte's divorce from its German partner, and, moreover, it is understood that Turkey is seeking a suitable channel through which to treat with the Entente Pew-

GERMAN SUBMARINE BASE SECURE FROM SEA ATTACK. (Received 8.5 a.m.) Athens, June 13. Tt is believed that German submarine, stores are located near Aivali, at 'a spot impossible to attack from the sea. Large quantities of benzine 'reached the place via Doulapi Straits, which is very narrowj and only accessible to small vessels. NEWS ABOUT OUR BOYS. Sydney, June 13. A soldier's letter states: "The Turks crept at night up to our trenches, and we caught them dressed as Indians." A New Zealander, Lieutenant Spargow, writes: "We have ten thousand wounded brought from Gallipoli to Egypt, and this is only the beginning." Captain Bean, in a cable dated June 5, says two small parties of New Zealanders last night took a Turkish trench' opposite Quinn's post. One party suffered considerably. The Turks counter-attacked at five o'clock this morning. The place is a veritable Hades, with bombs bursting over the captured trench at the rate of about four a minute. Despite this. the New Zealanders, at the time of writing, were still holding and strengthening it. A tremendous bombardment by the Anglo-French force operating at the southern end of the peninsula was audible all yesterday. Bursting shrapnel and high explosives from June 1 have been clearly visible along the tops of the ridges Bordering the Gulf of Saros.