THE DARDANELLES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 55, 5 July 1915, Page 5

THE DARDANELLES

GENERAL COURAUD WOUNDED.

The High Commissioner reports:— London, July 3 (3.25 a.m.)

General Gauraud, the French Com-mander-in-Chief at the Dardanelles, \vas severely but not dangerously wounded. (General Ganrand was hi command' of the British and French tv oops iii the southern sector of Gallipoli.)

COURAUD’S ARMY ORDER.

INVALIDED HOME.

United Press Association. (Received 8.25 a.m.) { Paris, July 4;' ■

General Gouraucl, in an Army order on June 4, said: “We must remember that in advancing against the) enemy on Turkish soil, it is yet our hateful enemy, Germany, whom you are fighting. She it was woo stirred them up against us. The Tnrke were formerly our friends, therefore show mercy to those Turks who surrender. Official.—General Goraud was struck by fragments of a shell near an ambulance station, to which he had gone on a visit to the wounded. His life is not in danger but he will be invalided home. General Bailloud has provisionally assumed command.

THE NEED OF AMMUNITION.

(Received 8.25 a.m.) London, July 4

A New Zealand officer who was recently at the Dardanelles and has arrived in London, says that the Turkish are clean fighters, and never as far as he was aware fired on the Red Jross. Hie concluded: “We want plenty of machine-guns and an unlimited supply ( of high explosives and diells to put us on an oqmlity with oho enemy.”